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[Omaha.pm] $0 = "I am not running";

Fascinating. When you set $0 inside a running Perl program, "ps w" and "ps -ef" and some others will report whatever you set. But "ps" won't change... 

j


$ perl -e '$0 = "I am not running"; sleep 10' &
$ ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
11323 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
11631 pts/0    00:00:00 perl
11656 pts/0    00:00:00 ps
$ ps w
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
11323 pts/0    S      0:00 -bash
11631 pts/0    S      0:00 I am not running
11657 pts/0    R+     0:00 ps w