setprocname

[Tomasz Pajor]

Hello,

Why there is no setprocname function in standard library, or am I
missing something?

 

[Grant Edwards]

Why there is no setprocname function in standard library, or am I
missing something?

Dunno. Before we start guessing, would you care to explain what you
think "setprocname" ought to do?

 

[MRAB]

Dunno. Before we start guessing, would you care to explain what you
think "setprocname" ought to do?

I think it's to set the name of the OS process.

On Windows, for example, all Python processes are called "python.exe" or
"pythonw.exe", so if you have several running it's not clear which is
which.

Have a look at:

http://bugs.python.org/issue5672

 

[Grant Edwards]

I think it's to set the name of the OS process.

On Windows, for example, all Python processes are called "python.exe" or
"pythonw.exe", so if you have several running it's not clear which is
which.

The Windows task manager won't display the entire command line, so
there's now way to know what's what? Seems like a problem in the
windows task manager to me...

I must admit that being able to use "killall" on a Python/Java/Bash
program would be handy sometimes.