[kupfer] Set process title to "kupfer" when starting up

[Ulrik Sverdrup <usverdrup src gnome org>]

commit 3d25b4e22a4b09a9889822892f13f5429bad708f
Author: Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com>
Date:   Mon Jan 18 17:25:48 2010 +0100

    Set process title to "kupfer" when starting up
    
    We call into the C Library's prctl to set the process's name (in some
    process listings). This function is not available from the python
    standard library.

 kupfer/main.py |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/kupfer/main.py b/kupfer/main.py
index 19eb002..3f5f0f5 100644
--- a/kupfer/main.py
+++ b/kupfer/main.py
@@ -129,6 +129,17 @@ def print_banner():
 	except UnicodeEncodeError, e:
 		print banner.encode("ascii", "replace")
 
+def _set_process_title_linux():
+	try:
+		import ctypes
+	except ImportError:
+		return
+	try:
+		libc = ctypes.CDLL("libc.so.6")
+		libc.prctl(15, "kupfer")
+	except (AttributeError, OSError):
+		pass
+
 def main():
 	# parse commandline before importing UI
 	cli_opts = get_options()
@@ -145,6 +156,7 @@ def main():
 		except ImportError, e:
 			pass
 	sys.excepthook = sys.__excepthook__
+	_set_process_title_linux()
 
 	w = browser.WindowController()