content/common/set_process_title.h

   1 // Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
   2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
   3 // found in the LICENSE file.
   4
   5 #ifndef CONTENT_COMMON_SET_PROCESS_TITLE_H_
   6 #define CONTENT_COMMON_SET_PROCESS_TITLE_H_
   7
   8 namespace content {
   9 // Sets OS-specific process title information based on the command line. This
  10 // does nothing if the OS doesn't support or need this capability.
  11 //
  12 // Pass in the argv from main(). On Windows, where there is no argv, you can
  13 // pass NULL or just don't call this function, since it does nothing. This
  14 // argv pointer will be cached so if you call this function again, you can pass
  15 // NULL in the second call. This is to support the case where it's called once
  16 // at startup, and later when a zygote is fork()ed. The later call doesn't have
  17 // easy access to main's argv.
  18 //
  19 // On non-Mac Unix platforms, we exec ourselves from /proc/self/exe, but that
  20 // makes the process name that shows up in "ps" etc. for the child processes
  21 // show as "exe" instead of "chrome" or something reasonable. This function
  22 // will try to fix it so the "effective" command line shows up instead.
  23 void SetProcessTitleFromCommandLine(const char** main_argv);
  24
  25 }  // namespace content
  26
  27 #endif  // CONTENT_COMMON_SET_PROCESS_TITLE_H_