New submission from Marc Liyanage:

I'm running Python 2.7 in a sandboxed OS X app. There are restrictions on the 
naming of POSIX semaphores when running in the sandbox. Specifically, there is 
a mandatory prefix.

I would like the ability to inject this prefix into the part of the 
multiprocessing module that creates the semaphore, perhaps by way of an 
environment variable.

I see that this is how the module generates the semaphore name:

    PyOS_snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "/mp%ld-%d", (long)getpid(), 
counter++);

Apple's documentation about the restrictions are here:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/security/conceptual/AppSandboxDesignGuide/AppSandboxInDepth/AppSandboxInDepth.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011183-CH3-SW24

The relevant part:

"POSIX semaphores and shared memory names must begin with the application group 
identifier, followed by a slash (/), followed by a name of your choosing."

So if I could inject that string before the leasing slash, I could make this 
work.

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 201936
nosy: Marc.Liyanage, jnoller, sbt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add ability to prefix posix semaphore names created by multiprocessing 
module
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7

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