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+/* Set the title of a process.
+   Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of the libiberty library.
+Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+Library General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not,
+write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
+#endif
+#include "ansidecl.h"
+
+/*
+
+@deftypefn Supplemental void setproctitle (const char *@var{fmt}, ...)
+
+Set the title of a process to @var{fmt}. va args not supported for now,
+but defined for compatibility with BSD. 
+
+@end deftypefn
+
+*/
+
+void
+setproctitle (const char *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, ...)
+{
+#ifdef PR_SET_NAME
+  /* On Linux this sets the top visible "comm", but not necessarily
+     the name visible in ps. */
+  prctl (PR_SET_NAME, name);
+#endif
+}