[Python-Dev] Pondering some changes to python.c... (original) (raw)

Sean Reifschneider jafo@tummy.com
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:10:16 -0600

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:46:24PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Sigh. The more I hear about this, the more I think, too ugly, this doesn't belong in Python.

It's easier if we make the following restrictions:

You can only set the process title to something the length of the original command-line or shorter (should work fine for simply deleting the "python" at the beginning).

After calling sys.setproctitle(), C code which has ahold of argv will no longer have the original argv data. We should be able to have a copy of the original argv for regular python code.

Are these reasonable restrictions to place on the setting of the process title?

Sean

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