[issue5672] Implement a way to change the python process name

Dan Stromberg added the comment: Isn't this "python script doesn't show up in top correctly" issue a matter of "#!/usr/bin/env python3"? If you "#!/usr/bin/python3" (for example) instead, top seems happy. -- nosy: +strombrg ___ Python tracker

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Floris Bruynooghe floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com added the comment: There are actually a few implementations on pypi, just search for prctl. At least one of them is pretty decent IIRC but I can't remember which one I looked at in detail before. Anyway, they would certainly be a reasonable

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Giampaolo Rodola' g.rod...@gmail.com added the comment: If somebody would provide a patch that adds prctl to the posix module, that would be fine with me - we have a long tradition of exposing all available system calls if somebody wants them. Just for the record, I was about to try to do

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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Just for the record, I was about to try to do this, when I realized that exposing prctl requires expecting a variable number of arguments with variable types. It turns out providing a Python wrapper for such a kind of C API is just a

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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: I'd rather not reopen this issue. It was too far-ranging, and has failed to get a specific solution. Please stop posting to this closed issue; if you want to contribute, please open a new one. I think the inclusion of the module should see

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Ludvig Ericson lud...@lericson.se added the comment: I use the setproctitle module extensively. It has worked flawlessly. What would be needed for this to get accepted? I realize one shouldn't stress such a decision, but still I feel this is something the standard library should be able to

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Daniele Varrazzo p...@develer.com added the comment: Hello everybody, I've finished porting the module to Python 3, so I think it's a good starting point for considering its inclusion into the stdlib. The source is already out; tomorrow I'll test for regressions on mac osx and release the

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Martin Marcher mar...@marcher.name added the comment: Hi, just scanned the messages. As I read it wontfix actually means: Ats some point in the future when the setproctitle project (http://code.google.com/p/py-setproctitle/source/list) has matured it will be reconsidered, correct? Yes sorry

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Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment: If it has matured, has shown to be as a best of breed library of it's type, and has gone through the PEP process, it could make it. That takes quite a bit of time and isn't likely to occur within the next few years (3.3 at the earliest assuming

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Daniele Varrazzo p...@develer.com added the comment: setproctitle is quite stable, my company uses it in production environment very heavily with python 2.x. Probably its users base is not huge, but that's because it's a relatively specialized tool. Python3 porting is not straightforward

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Marcelo Fernández marcelo.fidel.fernan...@gmail.com added the comment: So, while I'd be pleased to have it included in the stdlib, I'm not really convinced it would be useful to such a large audience. I think different, if python becomes even more successful to be used in desktop apps, this

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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Ats some point in the future when the setproctitle project (http://code.google.com/p/py-setproctitle/source/list) has matured it will be reconsidered, correct? No. It will also be required that it's authors agree to contribute it to

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Daniele Varrazzo p...@develer.com added the comment: No. It will also be required that it's authors agree to contribute it to Python, agree to stop maintaining the out-of-Python version (eventually), and agree to fill out a contributor form. I would have no problem with these points if the

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Daniele Varrazzo p...@develer.com added the comment: I've just tested it and it works fine here... Any possibility this module can be included in the regular python standard library, in the future? Only in the far future. I don't think the Python standard library should include a module

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Marcelo Fernández marcelo.fidel.fernan...@gmail.com added the comment: 2009/12/7 Daniele Varrazzo rep...@bugs.python.org: Daniele Varrazzo p...@develer.com added the comment: I've just tested it and it works fine here... Any possibility this module can be included in the regular python

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Marcelo Fernández marcelo.fidel.fernan...@gmail.com added the comment: Great, piro! I'm taking a look at it, and it seems to use setproctitle() in BSD, and writes over the argv array in most Sys-V like systems; this includes Linux? My question is because I think there's a better and

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Daniele Varrazzo p...@develer.com added the comment: I'm taking a look at it, and it seems to use setproctitle() in BSD, and writes over the argv array in most Sys-V like systems; this includes Linux? Yes: Linux uses what in the source is referred as the PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV strategy: it

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Marcelo Fernández marcelo.fidel.fernan...@gmail.com added the comment: 2009/12/6 Daniele Varrazzo rep...@bugs.python.org: My question is because I think there's a better and supported method for Linux, that is, using prctl [1]. I read somewhere that changing argv causes some inconsistencies

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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

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Marcelo Fernández marcelo.fidel.fernan...@gmail.com added the comment: 2009/12/6 Daniele Varrazzo rep...@bugs.python.org: Just released setproctitle 0.2 where I also call prctl() if available. It is actually the string used by killall. Great! I've just tested it and it works fine here...

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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: I've just tested it and it works fine here... Any possibility this module can be included in the regular python standard library, in the future? Only in the far future. I don't think the Python standard library should include a module

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Daniele Varrazzo p...@develer.com added the comment: I wrote a wrapper around the PostgreSQL implementation of setproctitle (probably the most portable around). I've only tested it on Linux: probably will require tweaking constants to compile on other platforms (something postgres does at

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Ask Solem a...@opera.com added the comment: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, wrote: And I'd follow the same path: provide a way to build a launcher - a .exe file that simply starts python with the given script. Sounds good, but how would you expect to set the process name for a subprocess, like a

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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

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Elvis Pranskevichus elpr...@gmail.com added the comment: Please don't provide a wrapper around ptrctrl 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

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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:

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Giampaolo Rodola' billiej...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: As for os.getprocname() I think you can borrow some code from psutil project [1] to implement it on FreeBSD, OS X and even Windows platforms. [1] http://code.google.com/p/psutil --

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: Some remarks about the patch: 1 - this line causes a buffer overrun: strncpy(argv[0], name , strlen(name)); A possible solution is to do like posix_putenv(): have a static PyString that holds the memory, and just change the pointer

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Marcelo Fernández fernandez...@yahoo.com.ar added the comment: Great, it's my first patch to python and I'm very happy with your comments. :-) Thanks Amaury, do you think is better that I should take out getprocname() if setprocname() changes sys.argv too? When I got some spare time, I'll take

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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Please don't provide a wrapper around ptrctrl. Instead, expose prctl as is (similar to how ioctl and fcntl get wrapped). It's ok to make some convenience adjustments (e.g. allowing fewer parameters than the actual call), and it's also ok to

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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: If somebody would provide a patch that adds prctl to the posix module, that would be fine with me - we have a long tradition of exposing all available system calls if somebody wants them. As for Windows: no, there is no equivalent of prctl.

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Marcelo Fernández fernandez...@yahoo.com.ar added the comment: Fine, I'll try to make a patch based on the procname project in Google Code. Here are some more links with more approaches to solve this issue (while I learn how to make a patch :-) )

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New submission from Marcelo Fernández fernandez...@yahoo.com.ar: As python gains more popularity, more and more applications run under CPython in a common user desktop. The problem is that if a user has 2 or more python apps running there is no way to identify them correctly from the generic

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: There was a similar request in Java bug database: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6299778 And I'd follow the same path: provide a way to build a launcher - a .exe file that simply starts python with the given script.

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Marcelo Fernández fernandez...@yahoo.com.ar added the comment: Uhm... ok, (looking at issue 4015) I agree with that method at some point (tough is not exactly the same thing)... but only if the launcher will not be for Windows only, and that solution would be consistent across al platforms...