Wine and process "names"

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Sunday, April 30, 2006, 12:31:50 PM, Segin wrote:
> Good day, everybody! I have recently done two things:

> A. I stopped trying to get Wine to use SDL for a graphics display -- the
> entire idea just sucks.
> B. Upgraded to 0.9.12

> This has presented me with something quite odd

> Windows programs running in Wine had their argv[0]'s exposed to Linux. 
> Let me clarify: When you run 'ps', the first word in the "CMD" field is
> usually a program's argv[0] and is referred to as the process's "name",
> but of course you all know that. It seems that Windows processes have 
> their names exported to Linux in the same way, I literally had this in 
> the 'ps' output:
> 13885 pts/1    00:00:21 C:\windows\notepad.exe

> Is this a new behaviour of Wine 0.9.12, or have the virus writers 
> finally caught up with us?



No it's been patch that AJ committed some time ago.

I think you should browse git commit log more often. Especially all of
AJ's patches are not going through wine-patches.