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[Python-porting] main() -> Py_SetProgramName()

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Sat Dec 8 12:57:53 CET 2012 
On 08.12.2012 10:40, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg <mal at ...> writes:
>>
>> There's also another issue with the approach, since changing the
>> **argv from within Python is no longer possible on non-Windows
>> platforms.
>>
>> This doesn't only affect embedded uses of Python, but all other
>> uses as well, e.g. it's no longer possible to change the ps output
>> under Unix for daemons and the like.
> 
> setproctitle is your friend:
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setproctitle

Thanks for the pointer, but I think this is more than enough
proof that something should be done to make the situations in
Py3 easier for everyone.

Here's the hack he's using to find the original argv areas
by walking backwards from environ[0]...

https://github.com/dvarrazzo/py-setproctitle/blob/master/src/spt_setup.c#L139

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