[PATCH] Use setproctitle in winbindd

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jan 9 19:17:05 UTC 2018


On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 08:11:12PM +0100, Andreas Schneider via samba-technical wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:07:18 CET 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.
> 
> Also lsasd, epmd and spoolssd should set it :-)

Oooh yes. This is a significant improvement ! Please push asap.



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