Php/docs/function.setproctitle

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• Set the process title

setproctitle

(PECL proctitle >= 0.1.0)

setproctitle — Set the process title

Description

setproctitle ( string $title ) : void

Sets the process title of the current process.

Parameters

title

The title to use as the process title.

Return Values

No value is returned.

Examples

Example #1 setproctitle() example

Running the example below will change the process title (visible with ps a for example).

<?phpsetproctitle("myscript");?>

The above example will output something similar to:

$ ps a
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
 1168 pts/3    S      0:00 myscript                                                                                                                         

See Also

• cli_set_process_title() - Sets the process title
• pcntl_fork() - Forks the currently running process
• setthreadtitle() - Set the thread title