Set process title to youtube-dl

This allows killing all youtube-dl processes with killall youtube-dl, and shows up nicer in some programs.
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Philipp Hagemeister 2013-12-16 05:04:12 +01:00
parent 8863d0de91
commit e3946f989e
2 changed files with 19 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import ctypes
import datetime
import email.utils
import errno
@ -1062,3 +1063,17 @@ def month_by_name(name):
def fix_xml_all_ampersand(xml_str):
"""Replace all the '&' by '&' in XML"""
return xml_str.replace(u'&', u'&')
def setproctitle(title):
try:
libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6")
except OSError:
return
title = title
buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title) + 1)
buf.value = title
try:
libc.prctl(15, ctypes.byref(buf), 0, 0, 0)
except AttributeError:
return # Strange libc, just skip this