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os: add SetProcName #4053

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donovanhide opened this issue Sep 6, 2012 · 7 comments
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os: add SetProcName #4053

donovanhide opened this issue Sep 6, 2012 · 7 comments
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@donovanhide
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It would be very useful to be able to change the process name for reference in tools
like top. This is especially useful when a go executable starts additional processes of
the same executable. This is a useful workaround for when the 16GB memory limit is
reached. It would be ideal if a method:

func (p *Process) SetName(name string) error

could be exported from the os package and any platform specific code added to the
syscall package such as:

prctl.set_proctitle for Linux

I believe OS X requires overwriting/exposing argv to achieve the same effect. 

There is an equivalent module for Python with lots of platform specific code:

https://github.com/dvarrazzo/py-setproctitle

Cheers,
Donovan.
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Comment 1:

I would like to see this implemented as a 3rdparty library if possible. It looks like
most solutions overwrite the argv[0] pointer to their own stringz. The only tricky bit
is getting the address of argv[0].

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rsc commented Sep 12, 2012

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This will be very grungy.

Labels changed: added priority-later, removed priority-triage.

Status changed to LongTerm.

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Comment 3 by erik@dubbelboer.com:

I have created a package to implement setproctitle() for Go:
https://github.com/ErikDubbelboer/gspt

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rsc commented Nov 27, 2013

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Labels changed: added go1.3maybe.

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rsc commented Dec 4, 2013

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Labels changed: added release-none, removed go1.3maybe.

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rsc commented Dec 4, 2013

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Labels changed: added repo-main.

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Comment 7:

There is a third party package for this (thanks!).

Labels changed: removed priority-later.

Status changed to WontFix.

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