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.
$ hg init
$ touch a
$ hg add a
$ hg commit -m "Added a"
$ touch main
$ hg add main
$ hg commit -m "Added main"
$ hg checkout 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
'main' should be gone:
$ ls
a
$ touch side1
$ hg add side1
$ hg commit -m "Added side1"
created new head
$ touch side2
$ hg add side2
$ hg commit -m "Added side2"
$ hg log
changeset: 3:91ebc10ed028
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added side2
changeset: 2:b932d7dbb1e1
parent: 0:c2eda428b523
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added side1
changeset: 1:71a760306caf
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added main
changeset: 0:c2eda428b523
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added a
$ hg heads
changeset: 3:91ebc10ed028
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added side2
changeset: 1:71a760306caf
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added main
$ ls
a
side1
side2
$ hg update --debug -C 1
resolving manifests
branchmerge: False, force: True, partial: False
ancestor: 91ebc10ed028+, local: 91ebc10ed028+, remote: 71a760306caf
side1: other deleted -> r
removing side1
side2: other deleted -> r
removing side2
main: remote created -> g
getting main
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ ls
a
main