system

Lowish-level system operations

set_proc_title(title)

Tries to set the current process title. This is very system-dependent and may not always work.

If it’s available, we use the setproctitle package, which is the most reliable way to do this. If not, we try doing it by loading libc and calling prctl ourselves. This is not reliable and only works on Unix systems. If neither of these works, we give up and return False.

If you want to increase the chances of this working (e.g. your process titles don’t seem to be getting set by Pimlico and you’d like them to), try installing setproctitle, either system-wide or in Pimlico’s virtualenv.

@return: True if the process succeeds, False if there’s an error