[PATCH] Use setproctitle in winbindd

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Jan 9 19:10:17 UTC 2018


On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 12:07 -0700, Christof Schmitt via samba-technical 
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Ralph Böhme via samba-technical wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Looking at the process list on a Samba DC with all those accurately named samba
> > processes, I got jealous and wanted the same in winbindd as well.
> > 
> > Patch attached, already reviewed by Andreas, so I'm going to push later if noone
> > objects.
> > 
> > How does it look like? Eg:
> > 
> > root     31717  0.0  0.9 436076 20028 ?        Ss   Jan06   0:07 ./bin/winbindd -D
> > root     31724  0.0  0.7 316200 15152 ?        S    Jan06   0:01  \_ winbindd: domain child [TITAN]
> > root     31727  0.0  0.8 436080 18200 ?        S    Jan06   0:00  \_ winbindd: domain child [WDOM2]
> > root     31728  0.0  0.9 443576 19112 ?        S    Jan06   0:01  \_ winbindd: idmap child         
> > root     31729  0.0  0.4 309044  9004 ?        S    Jan06   0:01  \_ winbindd: domain child [BUILTIN]
> > 
> > -slow
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i think this is a good idea. Sometimes it is important to identify a
> domain child process and currently the only method is checking the open
> files of the processes for a log file with the domain name.
> 
> Have you looked how other parts of the code set the title? For smbd,
> this is done from reinit_after_fork that then passes the last parameter
> to prctl_set_comment which then calls
> prctl(PR_SET_NAME).
> 
> It would be good to have a common path to set the process names.
> 
> Christof

I agree.  A pattern where we set the prctl(PR_SET_NAME) with a
truncated name and the setproctitle with a longer one would be a very
good idea, ideally as a function that calls both, eg
set_samba_process_titles(short, long). 

Andrew Bartlett
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