osutil: implement setprocname to set process title for some platforms
This patch adds a simple setprocname method to osutil. The operation is not
defined by any standard and is platform-specific, the current implementation
tries to cover some major platforms (ex. Linux, OS X, FreeBSD) that is
relatively easy to support. Other platforms (Windows [4], other BSDs, ...)
can be added in the future.
The current implementation supports two methods to change process title:
a. setproctitle if available (works in FreeBSD).
b. rewrite argv in place (works in Linux [1] and Mac OS X). [2] [3]
[1]: Linux has "prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...)" but 1) it has 16-byte limit, which
is too small; 2) it is not quite equivalent to what we want - it changes
"/proc/self/comm", not "/proc/self/cmdline" - "comm" change won't show up
in "ps" output unless "-o comm" is used.
[2]: The implementation does not rewrite the **environ buffer like some
other implementations do, just to make the code simpler and safer. However,
this also means the buffer size we can rewrite is significantly shorter. If
we are really greedy and want the "environ" space, we can change the
implementation later.
[3]: It requires a CPython private API: Py_GetArgcArgv to get the original
argv. Unfortunately Python 3 makes a copy of argv and returns the wchar_t
version, so it is not supported for now. (if we really want to, we could
count backwards from "char **environ", given known argc and argv, not sure
if that's a good idea - probably not)
[4]: The feature is aimed to make it easier for forked command server
processes to show what they are doing. Since Windows does not support
fork(), despite it's a major platform, its support is not added in this
patch.
DOCUMENT_ROOT="/var/www/hg"; export DOCUMENT_ROOT
GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"; export GATEWAY_INTERFACE
HTTP_ACCEPT="text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"; export HTTP_ACCEPT
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING="gzip,deflate"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE="en-us,en;q=0.5"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL="max-age=0"; export HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL
HTTP_CONNECTION="keep-alive"; export HTTP_CONNECTION
HTTP_HOST="hg.omnifarious.org"; export HTTP_HOST
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE="300"; export HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE
HTTP_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060608 Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.4"; export HTTP_USER_AGENT
PATH_INFO="/"; export PATH_INFO
PATH_TRANSLATED="/var/www/hg/index.html"; export PATH_TRANSLATED
QUERY_STRING=""; export QUERY_STRING
REMOTE_ADDR="127.0.0.2"; export REMOTE_ADDR
REMOTE_PORT="44703"; export REMOTE_PORT
REQUEST_METHOD="GET"; export REQUEST_METHOD
REQUEST_URI="/test/"; export REQUEST_URI
SCRIPT_FILENAME="/home/hopper/hg_public/test.cgi"; export SCRIPT_FILENAME
SCRIPT_NAME="/test"; export SCRIPT_NAME
SCRIPT_URI="http://hg.omnifarious.org/test/"; export SCRIPT_URI
SCRIPT_URL="/test/"; export SCRIPT_URL
SERVER_ADDR="127.0.0.1"; export SERVER_ADDR
SERVER_ADMIN="eric@localhost"; export SERVER_ADMIN
SERVER_NAME="hg.omnifarious.org"; export SERVER_NAME
SERVER_PORT="80"; export SERVER_PORT
SERVER_PROTOCOL="HTTP/1.1"; export SERVER_PROTOCOL
SERVER_SIGNATURE="<address>Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora) Server at hg.omnifarious.org Port 80</address>"; export SERVER_SIGNATURE
SERVER_SOFTWARE="Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)"; export SERVER_SOFTWARE