[Python-Dev] Pondering some changes to python.c...

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> I've been pondering some changes to the main() interpreter code for a
> while.  I'd like to get some feedback on them.
> 
> One is making changes to the process title to remove the interpreter name.
> I've implemented some code to do this, which I'll include below.  I realize
> that this code won't work for every platform, but for some it would be
> quite a nice change.  In particular, it would allow things like "killall"
> to be able to work on python programs.
> 
> The basics are that I check to make sure all the argv elements are
> sequential, then just do "memcpy(argv[0], argv[1], appropriateSize)", and
> pad strlen(orig_argv[0]) at the end with '\0'.  This is after saving a copy
> of the original argv to hand off to Python itself.

-1 on making it the default -- there are programs relying on this.
+1 on providing a sys module interface for this so that programs
can choose the name on their own.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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