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Please no. If you want to know what a process is running, look carefully in `/proc` or use `lsof` or whatever, but no, please, `argv[0]` is super useful. I use it, lots of people use it. And it's well known that pstrings can be abused to hide things from `ps`, but so what, it's been that way for 4+ decades and it's a well-known "problem" (it's not a problem).



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