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| author |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-29 11:07:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-30 11:43:55 +0000 |
| commit | 5b234d1539c26b011a6a68fc583080a75fa02efb (patch) | |
| tree | 0c504951b51042f30a157cf4f089d71e74c710cd /bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py | |
| parent | 0b0692475958443c0bb14c55ef3664477e749868 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-5b234d1539c26b011a6a68fc583080a75fa02efb.tar.gz | |
bitbake: utils: Add ability to change the process name
Being able to tell the bitbake processes apart is useful for debugging.
Add a helper function which allows this without making it a hard
dependency. Errors are ignored, this is just nice to have.
(Bitbake rev: fd7f1a94d196b8a3c445e313d9e699b352b1da97)
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py index 9a3efb25de..ae10213ed7 100644 --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py @@ -1395,3 +1395,14 @@ def ioprio_set(who, cls, value): raise ValueError("Unable to set ioprio, syscall returned %s" % rc) else: bb.warn("Unable to set IO Prio for arch %s" % _unamearch) + +def set_process_name(name): + from ctypes import cdll, byref, create_string_buffer + # This is nice to have for debugging, not essential + try: + libc = cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.6') + buff = create_string_buffer(len(name)+1) + buff.value = name + libc.prctl(15, byref(buff), 0, 0, 0) + except: + pass |