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.
#require symlink
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg init
$ hg qinit
$ hg qnew base.patch
$ echo aaa > a
$ echo bbb > b
$ echo ccc > c
$ hg add a b c
$ hg qrefresh
$ readlink.py a
a -> a not a symlink
test replacing a file with a symlink
$ hg qnew symlink.patch
$ rm a
$ ln -s b a
$ hg qrefresh --git
$ readlink.py a
a -> b
$ hg qpop
popping symlink.patch
now at: base.patch
$ hg qpush
applying symlink.patch
now at: symlink.patch
$ readlink.py a
a -> b
test updating a symlink
$ rm a
$ ln -s c a
$ hg qnew --git -f updatelink
$ readlink.py a
a -> c
$ hg qpop
popping updatelink
now at: symlink.patch
$ hg qpush --debug
applying updatelink
patching file a
committing files:
a
committing manifest
committing changelog
now at: updatelink
$ readlink.py a
a -> c
$ hg st
test replacing a symlink with a file
$ ln -s c s
$ hg add s
$ hg qnew --git -f addlink
$ rm s
$ echo sss > s
$ hg qnew --git -f replacelinkwithfile
$ hg qpop
popping replacelinkwithfile
now at: addlink
$ hg qpush
applying replacelinkwithfile
now at: replacelinkwithfile
$ cat s
sss
$ hg st
test symlink removal
$ hg qnew removesl.patch
$ hg rm a
$ hg qrefresh --git
$ hg qpop
popping removesl.patch
now at: replacelinkwithfile
$ hg qpush
applying removesl.patch
now at: removesl.patch
$ hg st -c
C b
C c
C s
replace broken symlink with another broken symlink
$ ln -s linka linka
$ hg add linka
$ hg qnew link
$ hg mv linka linkb
$ rm linkb
$ ln -s linkb linkb
$ hg qnew movelink
$ hg qpop
popping movelink
now at: link
$ hg qpush
applying movelink
now at: movelink
$ readlink.py linkb
linkb -> linkb