On 2016-03-31 13:06:05 +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hello
>
> Recently I discovered that renaming processes using setproctitle() call
> on BSD systems may sometimes cause problems. For instance there is
> currently a bug in all versions of LLDB which makes it impossible to
> debug a process that called setproctitle():
>
> https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26924#c3
>
> Since LLVM stack is used by default in FreeBSD I believe it's quite a
> severe problem. In case there is other software that doesn't handle
> stproctitle() well and for users of LLDB <= 3.8 (most recent version)
> I propose to add a --disable-setproctitle flag to configure script.
> Corresponding patch is attached.
Seems more appropriate to simply manually add a #undef HAVE_SETPROCTITLE
to pg_config_manual.h in that case. Adding configure flags for ephemeral
debugger issues seems like a high churn activity.
Andres
