absl.command_name module

A tiny stand alone library to change the kernel process name on Linux.

absl.command_name.make_process_name_useful()

Sets the process name to something better than ‘python’ if possible.

absl.command_name.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.

Parameters:

name – bytes|unicode, the Linux kernel’s command name to set.