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# Copyright 2017 The Abseil Authors. | |
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"""A tiny stand alone library to change the kernel process name on Linux.""" | |
import os | |
import sys | |
# This library must be kept small and stand alone. It is used by small things | |
# that require no extension modules. | |
def make_process_name_useful(): | |
"""Sets the process name to something better than 'python' if possible.""" | |
set_kernel_process_name(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])) | |
def set_kernel_process_name(name): | |
"""Changes the Kernel's /proc/self/status process name on Linux. | |
The kernel name is NOT what will be shown by the ps or top command. | |
It is a 15 character string stored in the kernel's process table that | |
is included in the kernel log when a process is OOM killed. | |
The first 15 bytes of name are used. Non-ASCII unicode is replaced with '?'. | |
Does nothing if /proc/self/comm cannot be written or prctl() fails. | |
Args: | |
name: bytes|unicode, the Linux kernel's command name to set. | |
""" | |
if not isinstance(name, bytes): | |
name = name.encode('ascii', 'replace') | |
try: | |
# This is preferred to using ctypes to try and call prctl() when possible. | |
with open('/proc/self/comm', 'wb') as proc_comm: | |
proc_comm.write(name[:15]) | |
except EnvironmentError: | |
try: | |
import ctypes # pylint: disable=g-import-not-at-top | |
except ImportError: | |
return # No ctypes. | |
try: | |
libc = ctypes.CDLL('libc.so.6') | |
except EnvironmentError: | |
return # No libc.so.6. | |
pr_set_name = ctypes.c_ulong(15) # linux/prctl.h PR_SET_NAME value. | |
zero = ctypes.c_ulong(0) | |
try: | |
libc.prctl(pr_set_name, name, zero, zero, zero) | |
# Ignore the prctl return value. Nothing we can do if it errored. | |
except AttributeError: | |
return # No prctl. | |