How do I change the process name of an Erlang VM?

Question

How do I change the process name of an Erlang VM?

It isn't very convenient to have beam listed when I do ps -A...

Somewhat related to: changing the process name of a python script

Answer 1

You would have to overwrite the content of argv[0] in C in Linux. Now how to do that from erlang ... Well you might need to start the erlang process from within a C wrapper .. Just my 2 cent