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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:02:56 +0100
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Improved Linux process title support in the CLI SAPI
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:

> On 02/07/2013 10:25 AM, Nikita Popov wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Christoph Rosse <crosse@2bepublished.at
> >wrote:
> >
> >> why wouldn't this go into core? setting the name of the current
> >> php-process is definitely something everyone that develops php-cli
> scripts
> >> could use.
> >>
> > I use a lot of php-cli scripts and I've never seen the need. Without
> having
> > hard data to back this up, I am pretty sure that this applies to nearly
> all
> > php-cli scripts.
>
> I think you may have glossed over the part where Keyur explained that
> when running tons of Gearman workers under GearmanManager it makes
> things a lot easier if we had a working way to set the proctitle. As he
> explained, the pecl/proctitle way of doing it isn't sufficient because
> it is likely to corrupt memory if you try to set the process title to
> anything longer than 3 characters. The only way to fix that memory
> corruption is to hook in earlier and that isn't something we can do from
> an extension.
>

I didn't gloss over it, it just wasn't there at the time :) But yeah, that
use case makes a lot of sense to me, so +1 on this.

Nikita

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