diff --git a/docs/src/misc.rst b/docs/src/misc.rst
index 95237f49..71934694 100644
--- a/docs/src/misc.rst
+++ b/docs/src/misc.rst
@@ -192,7 +192,11 @@ API
 
 .. c:function:: int uv_set_process_title(const char* title)
 
-    Sets the current process title.
+    Sets the current process title. On platforms with a fixed size buffer for the
+    process title the contents of `title` will be copied to the buffer and
+    truncated if larger than the available space. Other platforms will return
+    `UV_ENOMEM` if they cannot allocate enough space to duplicate the contents of
+    `title`.
 
 .. c:function:: int uv_resident_set_memory(size_t* rss)
 
diff --git a/src/unix/aix.c b/src/unix/aix.c
index 652cd980..80d63301 100644
--- a/src/unix/aix.c
+++ b/src/unix/aix.c
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@
 #define RDWR_BUF_SIZE   4096
 #define EQ(a,b)         (strcmp(a,b) == 0)
 
+static void* args_mem = NULL;
+static char** process_argv = NULL;
+static int process_argc = 0;
+static char* process_title_ptr = NULL;
+
 int uv__platform_loop_init(uv_loop_t* loop) {
   loop->fs_fd = -1;
 
@@ -881,24 +886,94 @@ void uv__fs_event_close(uv_fs_event_t* handle) {
 
 
 char** uv_setup_args(int argc, char** argv) {
-  return argv;
+  char** new_argv;
+  size_t size;
+  char* s;
+  int i;
+
+  if (argc <= 0)
+    return argv;
+
+  /* Save the original pointer to argv.
+   * AIX uses argv to read the process name.
+   * (Not the memory pointed to by argv[0..n] as on Linux.)
+   */
+  process_argv = argv;
+  process_argc = argc;
+
+  /* Calculate how much memory we need for the argv strings. */
+  size = 0;
+  for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
+    size += strlen(argv[i]) + 1;
+
+  /* Add space for the argv pointers. */
+  size += (argc + 1) * sizeof(char*);
+
+  new_argv = uv__malloc(size);
+  if (new_argv == NULL)
+    return argv;
+  args_mem = new_argv;
+
+  /* Copy over the strings and set up the pointer table. */
+  s = (char*) &new_argv[argc + 1];
+  for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
+    size = strlen(argv[i]) + 1;
+    memcpy(s, argv[i], size);
+    new_argv[i] = s;
+    s += size;
+  }
+  new_argv[i] = NULL;
+
+  return new_argv;
 }
 
 
 int uv_set_process_title(const char* title) {
+  char* new_title;
+
+  /* We cannot free this pointer when libuv shuts down,
+   * the process may still be using it.
+   */
+  new_title = uv__strdup(title);
+  if (new_title == NULL)
+    return -ENOMEM;
+
+  /* If this is the first time this is set,
+   * don't free and set argv[1] to NULL.
+   */
+  if (process_title_ptr != NULL)
+    uv__free(process_title_ptr);
+
+  process_title_ptr = new_title;
+
+  process_argv[0] = process_title_ptr;
+  if (process_argc > 1)
+     process_argv[1] = NULL;
+
   return 0;
 }
 
 
 int uv_get_process_title(char* buffer, size_t size) {
+  size_t len;
+  len = strlen(process_argv[0]);
   if (buffer == NULL || size == 0)
     return -EINVAL;
+  else if (size <= len)
+    return -ENOBUFS;
+
+  memcpy(buffer, process_argv[0], len + 1);
 
-  buffer[0] = '\0';
   return 0;
 }
 
 
+UV_DESTRUCTOR(static void free_args_mem(void)) {
+  uv__free(args_mem);  /* Keep valgrind happy. */
+  args_mem = NULL;
+}
+
+
 int uv_resident_set_memory(size_t* rss) {
   char pp[64];
   psinfo_t psinfo;
diff --git a/test/test-process-title.c b/test/test-process-title.c
index 21ab0ed4..96fe719b 100644
--- a/test/test-process-title.c
+++ b/test/test-process-title.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static void uv_get_process_title_edge_cases() {
 
 
 TEST_IMPL(process_title) {
-#if defined(__sun) || defined(_AIX) || defined(__MVS__)
+#if defined(__sun) || defined(__MVS__)
   RETURN_SKIP("uv_(get|set)_process_title is not implemented.");
 #else
   /* Check for format string vulnerabilities. */