set title on lightweight processes, properly

Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/src/__main__.py b/src/__main__.py
index cfda11d..f809a5d 100755
--- a/src/__main__.py
+++ b/src/__main__.py
@@ -478,33 +478,6 @@ class Bar:
 
 
 ## Set process title
-def setproctitle(title):
-    '''
-    Set process title
-    
-    @param  title:str  The title of the process
-    '''
-    import ctypes
-    try:
-        # Remove path, keep only the file,
-        # otherwise we get really bad effects, namely
-        # the name title is truncates by the number
-        # of slashes in the title. At least that is
-        # the observed behaviour when using procps-ng.
-        title = title.split('/')[-1]
-        # Create string buffer with title
-        title = title.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding(), 'replace')
-        title = ctypes.create_string_buffer(title)
-        if 'linux' in sys.platform:
-            # Set process title on Linux
-            libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.6')
-            libc.prctl(15, ctypes.byref(title), 0, 0, 0)
-        elif 'bsd' in sys.platform:
-            # Set process title on at least FreeBSD
-            libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.7')
-            libc.setproctitle(ctypes.create_string_buffer(b'-%s'), title)
-    except:
-        pass
 setproctitle(sys.argv[0])