Hiding stuff
Joel Spolsky
spolsky-joel at CS.YALE.EDU
Sat Mar 11 18:43:47 AEST 1989
In article <275 at dekalb.UUCP> brian at dekalb.UUCP (Brian "I don't need a life" Charlton) writes:
>
> How do I hide what I doing,specifically,when someone envokes a
>w,who,top,finger,ps,lastcom,etc...,it doesn't show what I doing.
>
Well.... your processes would have to change their names in the process
table, which is possible, but you probably don't want to rewrite all
the programs you use. Try invoking a shell inside of emacs. That's not
entirely effective but more often than not "w" will show you as
running emacs.
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