[issue5672] Implement a way to change the python process name

[Elvis Pranskevichus]

Elvis Pranskevichus <elprans at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Please don't provide a wrapper around ptrctrl

prctl is not portable. I always thought that the premise of stdlib is to
provide portable interfaces.  BSD, for example, uses setprocname instead
of prctl.  Also, prctl does not modify the process name shown in "ps
uxww". Here's how PostgreSQL does this: http://tinyurl.com/mhjuqc.

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