Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34570edit=1
ID: 34570
Comment by: matt at mralston dot co dot uk
Reported by:steve-php-dev at spwiz dot com
Summary:Implement some sort of setproctitle() in cli version
Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package:*General Issues
Operating System: Linux 2.4 kernel
PHP Version:5.0.5
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Fantastic!
In the dictionary, there's an entry for short and sweet, and next to
it is your post!
Thank you very much. And thank you PECL. And thank you Wikipedia!
I've never given PECL much attention before; I now see the error of my
ways.
USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME
COMMAND
daemon7269 0.0 0.0 124696 3500 ?Ss 11:59 0:00
[CAIMan]
I'm a happy bunny! Thank you.
Previous Comments:
[2011-01-23 08:03:31] dtajchre...@php.net
http://pecl.php.net/package/proctitle
[2011-01-23 01:48:45] matt at mralston dot co dot uk
I can't stress how much I'd like to see this feature implemented.
I'm not a C programmer and I haven't got a clue how PHP is structured
behind the
scenes, but I can't
imagine that this feature would be difficult to implement.
I've been through a quite a journey with this conundrum today. I started
out
coding a new daemon
this morning. Began to wish I could change the /usr/bin/php
./caiman.php start
entry in the ps
auxw listing this afternoon. I then spent some time researching how to
do it
(which was fustrating
because I didn't even know how to phrase the question for Google when I
started). I eventually found
some C++ forums talking about modifying argv[0] and was excited and then
disappointed when I found it
didn't work in PHP. I drafted out a long e-mail I intended to send to
the PHP
developers, then figured
I'd better properly RTFM and check out the bug tracker first. That's
when I came
across this feature request
(and an older one from 2002). Unfortunately both appear to have
stalled.
So here I am, adding my voice to this request. I can grovel if you
like!
Please, please, please would somebody have a go at adding this feature
when
they've got some spare
time? Even if the feature is ultimately rejected for inclusion into the
trunk, a
little patch that I
could apply to my own servers would be appreciated so much.
In the meantime, I'm just about to start poking around the PHP sources
on my
development box and see
if I can implement something myself. As I said, I'm not a C programmer
so I
expect to struggle, but
it's worth a shot. I'm thinking of something like:
void pcntl_setproctitle(char *new_title)
{
sprintf(argv[0], new_title);
}
Thanks for listening to me ramble.
- Matt
[2005-09-20 23:39:12] steve-php-dev at spwiz dot com
Description:
I'm using the pcntl module in the CLI SAPI to fork off several
processes. I'd like the processes to be able to identify themselves in
ps. In Linux, you can do this by editing argv[0]. On BSD, you use the
setproctitle() function. Other higher level languages support this
feature. A simple perl script to do this on Linux would be:
$0 = bogus;
sleep 10;
I tried modifying $argv[0], but that only modified the PHP scripts copy
of argv, not the real argv. It'd be nice if there was a way to modify
the process title directly. Ideally, it would be cross-platform (for
Unix variants, at least).
This was originally requested in 2002
(http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18400), but was rejected. When using
the pcntl functions in the CLI version, it really would be a useful
feature.
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