setproctitle 1.2.1

Environment variables

A few environment variables can be used to customize the module behavior:

SPT_NOENV

Avoid clobbering /proc/PID/environ.

On many platforms, setting the process title will clobber the environ memory area. os.environ will work as expected from within the Python process, but the content of the file /proc/PID/environ will be overwritten. If you require this file not to be broken you can set the SPT_NOENV environment variable to any non-empty value: in this case the maximum length for the title will be limited to the length of the command line.

SPT_DEBUG

Print debug information on stderr.

If the module doesn’t work as expected you can set this variable to a non-empty value to generate information useful for debugging. Note that the most useful information is printed when the module is imported, not when the functions are called.

Version 1.2

• added getthreadtitle() and setthreadtitle().

• Initialisation of the module moved to the first usage: importing the module doesn’t cause side effects.

• Manage much longer command lines (#52)

• Improved build on BSD, dropped ancient versions (issue #67).

• Fixed build for Python 3.8 (#66, #72)

• Added support for Python 3.9

• Dropped support for Python < 3.6

Version 1.1.10

• Fixed building with certain prctl.h implementations (issue #44).

• Use setuptools if available (issue #48).

Version 1.1.9

• Fixed build on VC (issues #20, #33).

• Added MANIFEST.in to the source distribution to help with RPM building (issue #30).

Version 1.1.8

• Added support for Python “diehard” 2.4 (pull request #3).

• Fixed build on Mac OS X 10.9 Maverick (issue #27).

Version 1.1.7

• Added PyPy support, courtesy of Ozan Turksever - http://www.logsign.net (pull request #2).

Version 1.1.6

• The module can be compiled again on Windows (issue #21).

Version 1.1.5

• No module bug, but a packaging issue: files README and HISTORY added back into the distribution.

Version 1.1.4

• The module works correctly in embedded Python.

• setproctitle() accepts a keyword argument.

• Debug output support always compiled in: the variable SPT_DEBUG can be used to emit debug log.

Version 1.1.3

• Don’t clobber environ if the variable SPT_NOENV is set (issue #16).

Version 1.1.2

• Find the setproctitle include file on OpenBSD (issue #11).

• Skip test with unicode if the file system encoding wouldn’t make it pass (issue #13).

Version 1.1.1

• Fixed segfault when the module is imported under mod_wsgi (issue #9).

Version 1.1

• The module works correctly with Python 3.

Version 1.0.1

• setproctitle() works even when Python messes up with argv, e.g. when run with the -m option (issue #8).

Version 1.0

No major change since the previous version. The module has been heavily used in production environment without any problem reported, so it’s time to declare it stable.

Version 0.4

• Module works on BSD (tested on FreeBSD 7.2).

• Module works on Windows. Many thanks to Develer for providing a neat GCC package for Windows with Python integration that made the Windows porting painless.

Version 0.3

• Module works on Mac OS X 10.2. Reported working on OS X 10.6 too.

Version 0.2

• Added prctl() call on Linux >= 2.6.9 to update /proc/self/status.

Version 0.1

• Initial public release.