New submission from Marcelo Fernández <fernandez...@yahoo.com.ar>: As python gains more popularity, more and more applications run under CPython in a common user desktop. The problem is that if a user has 2 or more python apps running there is no way to identify them correctly from the generic "Task/Process Manager Application" (in Windows/Linux/OSX/any OS), because all appear as a "python" process. Take Ubuntu for an example.
There are more cases when this is annoying: - Imagine two python process (doing different things, of course) sending messages to syslog: looks like all coming from "python" process. - A bash script which wants to "killall" one application: how can it identify a given python script between two or more "python" processes? There are some methods [1][2] to work around it, but there are not just Linux/BSD only, moreover, there are not included in the python standard modules. [1] http://davyd.livejournal.com/166352.html [2] http://code.google.com/p/procname/ I hope this issue gets considered in the community to fix it, I really think this is important... :-) Regards, Marcelo ---------- components: Extension Modules messages: 85252 nosy: marcelo_fernandez severity: normal status: open title: Implement a way to change the python process name type: feature request _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5672> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
