The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve().

diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index e660c1cb4cc82a06521570ce76e08e05a9f72801..67a8b51841a07139b0a765bb0b69a7e6c4bdf897 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -162,6 +162,13 @@ The
 .B PR_SET_KEEPCAPS
 flag is cleared.
 .IP * 4
+The process name, as set by
+.BR prctl (2)
+.BR PR_SET_NAME 
+(and displayed by
+.IR "ps -o comm" ),
+is reset to the name of the new executable file.
+.IP * 4
 The termination signal is reset to SIGCHLD
 (see
 .BR clone (2)).