Marcelo Fernández <fernandez...@yahoo.com.ar> added the comment: This patch (to python 2.7 trunk) allows to call prctl() function from Linux kernel to change the process name. It adds two methods to the os module: os.getprocname() and os.setprocname().
Working example: marc...@marcelo-laptop:~/src/pytrunk$ ./python Python 2.7a0 (trunk:71261M, Apr 5 2009, 16:32:55) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os [34831 refs] >>> os.getprocname() './python' [34833 refs] >>> os.getpid() 5601 [34833 refs] >>> os.setprocname('hello_process_name') [34833 refs] >>> os.getprocname() 'hello_process_name' [34833 refs] Before changing the process name: marc...@marcelo-laptop:~/src/pytrunk$ ps -fax | grep 5601 Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html 5601 pts/2 S+ 0:00 | \_ ./python 5611 pts/3 S+ 0:00 \_ grep 5601 After changing the process name: marc...@marcelo-laptop:~/src/pytrunk$ ps -fax | grep 5601 Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html 5601 pts/2 S+ 0:00 | \_ hello_process_name 5635 pts/3 S+ 0:00 \_ grep 5601 And "killall hello_process_name" works, Gnome Process monitor shows it fine too. By now this is Linux only, but I hope to implement it also for BSD (FreeBSD has it[1], OpenBSD [2] and NetBSD [3] too). [1] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/gen/setproctitle.c?v=FREEBSD-LIBC [2] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/setproctitle.c?rev=1.11;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup [3] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/setproctitle.c?rev=1.22&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN Regards ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13635/issue5672_1.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5672> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com