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"""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.
