Failure to Build on OSX

[sirosen]

So, right now we rely on sys/prctl.h
That means that the Hydra cannot run on OSX. I'd like us to fix this at some point, if we can.

[courageousillumination]

The only thing that we use from sys/prctl.h is the call to prctl(PR_SET_NAME, name);. This sets the process name so that "killall -9 hydra" won't kill the hydra. The next line strcpy(argv[0], name); sets the command line name which is listed in "ps aux". If we can find a way to set the process name on OS X we can easily remedy this problem.

[loosecannon93]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4217947/setting-process-name-on-mac-os-x-at-runtime

its apparently surprise surprise a huge pain in the ass.

you can basically change argv[0] and that will apparently work for ps, but
not activity monitor, which you can hack up to work or something

Thanks,
Cannon Matthews

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:13 AM, courageousillumination <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

The only thing that we use from sys/prctl.h is the call to
prctl(PR_SET_NAME, name);. This sets the process name so that "killall -9
hydra" won't kill the hydra. The next line strcpy(argv[0], name); sets the
command line name which is listed in "ps aux". If we can find a way to set
the process name on OS X we can easily remedy this problem.

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