[Twisted-Python] A useful value for argv[0]

Brian Warner warner at lothar.com
Sun Feb 16 02:22:50 MST 2003


> >   I think it would be neat if twistd re-executed itself(/python), and
> > specified the name of the tap/tas/tax file it was currently processing as
> > the value for argv[0].

I like it, but the re-exec step is a bit unfortunate. I can imagine problems
(or at least user confusion) when twistd is run under strace, or pdb.

Is there any python way to change argv[0] in place? C apps can muck with it
all they like.. is sys.argv[0] mutable in any useful way?

 -Brian




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