# Copyright 2017 The Abseil Authors. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. """A tiny stand alone library to change the kernel process name on Linux.""" from __future__ import absolute_import from __future__ import division from __future__ import print_function 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 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.