exec -a would seem to end up setting argv[0] on the CPython interpreter itself, which I don't think is the desired effect...
-- Ryan (ライアン) Yoko Shimomura > ryo (supercell/EGOIST) > Hiroyuki Sawano >> everyone else http://refi64.com On Mar 18, 2017 10:11 AM, "Freddy Rietdijk" <freddyrietd...@fridh.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if you're open to supporting `exec -a` or an > environment variable for setting `argv[0]`, and have some pointers as to > where that should be implemented. > > On Nixpkgs we typically use wrappers to set environment variables like > PATH or PYTHONPATH for individual programs. Consider a program named > `prog`. We move the original program `prog` to `.prog-wrapped` and then > create a wrapper `prog` that does `exec -a prog .prog-wrapped`. > > Unfortunately `exec -a` does not work with Python. The process is still > named `.prog-wrapped` (although that's not really a problem) but worse, > `sys.argv[0]` is also `.prog-wrapped`. Currently we inject some code in > programs that sets `sys.argv=[0] = "prog" but this is fragile and I would > prefer to get rid of this. > > Kind regards, > > Frederik > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > rymg19%40gmail.com > >
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