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Yep. There's a tool in djb's daemontools that uses this behavior - https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/readproctitle.html . It's kinda a pathological case, but it's a kinda cool way to assure that you can get some data from your processes, even on a totally horked system, as well as being fairly convenient from an old-school administration perspective (giving the ability to see what errors a program has encountered with just ps or top; Already likely to be the first commands run when something's wrong.)


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