+2009-03-16 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
+
+ * nscd/connections.c (restart): Try to preserve the process name
+ by reading the /proc/self/exe symlink and using the return name.
+ Patch by Jeff Bastian <jbastian@redhat.com>.
+
2009-03-15 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
[BZ #9733]
}
/* The preparations are done. */
- execv ("/proc/self/exe", argv);
+#ifdef PATH_MAX
+ char pathbuf[PATH_MAX];
+#else
+ char pathbuf[256];
+#endif
+ /* Try to exec the real nscd program so the process name (as reported
+ in /proc/PID/status) will be 'nscd', but fall back to /proc/self/exe
+ if readlink fails */
+ ssize_t n = readlink ("/proc/self/exe", pathbuf, sizeof (pathbuf) - 1);
+ if (n == -1)
+ execv ("/proc/self/exe", argv);
+ else
+ {
+ pathbuf[n] = '\0';
+ execv (pathbuf, argv);
+ }
/* If we come here, we will never be able to re-exec. */
dbg_log (_("re-exec failed: %s; disabling paranoia mode"),