Small patch: --disable-setproctitle flag - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aleksander Alekseev
Subject Small patch: --disable-setproctitle flag
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Msg-id 20160331130605.384df484@fujitsu
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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.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
http://eax.me/

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