<div dir="ltr"> I wrote and tested the following C++ program after reading the Stack Overflow article , <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31747247/change-real-process-name-in-c-on-linux">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31747247/change-real-process-name-in-c-on-linux</a>. I discovered my program could not programatically change the Ubuntu 16.04 System Monitor process name from cli or mono to an unique name such as "fancy_name". How can we fix my botched C++ program for the use case where multiple Linux processes have an identical name and we would like to kill processes by process name using pgrep? My architect does not wish to use UNIX scripts for this purpose. <div> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <cstdlib> #include <csignal> #include <string.h> #include <sys/prctl.h> using namespace std; int main(int argc, char* argvp[]) { char lockfile[4096]; char environment_variable[4096]; char exe[4096]; cout << argvp[1] << endl; if (strcmp(argvp[1] , "-start") == 0) { sprintf(exe,"%s.exe",argvp[2]); cout << exe << endl; ifstream myReadFile; myReadFile.open(exe); if (!myReadFile.good()) { cout << "-start Unrecognized C# executable " << exe << endl; return 0; } char *argv[] = { "/usr/lib/mono/4.5/mono-service.exe", exe, 0 }; sprintf(environment_variable,"LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%s",argvp[3]); cout << environment_variable << endl; char *envp[] = { environment_variable, 0 }; cout << argv[0] << endl; execle("/usr/lib/mono/4.5/mono-service.exe", "fancy_name", exe, (char *)0, envp ); perror("Oops!"); } </div><div> return 1; } </div><div>Any help is greatly appreciated. </div> Frank</div>