Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@divmod.com> added the comment: > prctl is not portable. I always thought that the premise of stdlib is to > provide portable interfaces. BSD, for example, uses setprocname instead > of prctl. Also, prctl does not modify the process name shown in "ps > uxww". Here's how PostgreSQL does this: http://tinyurl.com/mhjuqc.
Many parts of the stdlib are not portable. It is perfectly appropriate for the stdlib to expose a low-level, platform-specific API directly and in a way which makes the Python API similarly low-level and non-portable. That's not to say that a cross-platform API cannot *also* be provided, though, assuming the functionality can be implemented *somehow* on other platforms. So I agree with Martin. prctl should be exposed as-is. If someone would also like to expose similar functionality on on other platforms, great. And if someone would like to provide a cross-platform API based on these, also great. ---------- nosy: +exarkun _______________________________________ 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
