Daniele Varrazzo <p...@develer.com> added the comment: > It seems that some utilities and programs (killall, > gnome-system-monitor, and so on) looks for the process name in > /proc/PID/status, not in /proc/PID/cmdline, so it should be better > (in Linux), to modify both, /proc/PID/cmdline (changing argv) *and* > /proc/PID/status (calling prctl()).
> I installed py-setproctitle, and can't kill it with killall once I > set the name to "hello", for example. :-( Just released setproctitle 0.2 where I also call prctl() if available. It is actually the string used by killall. >> For what I observed, clobbering argv changes what shown in >> ``/proc/PID/cmdline``, whereas prctl changes what can be read in >> ``/proc/PID/status`` (and ``stat`` too). ``ps`` uses the former, but >> switches to the latter when calling ``ps a`` and ``ps f``. ``top`` >> toggles between the two pressing ``c``. > Sorry, but here (Ubuntu 9.10) it works the other way around: "ps" > lists the /proc/PID/status -> name field and "ps a" lists the > /proc/PID/cmdline. But I got the explanation. :-) Yup, sorry: it was the other way round :P ---------- _______________________________________ 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
