Project Summary
The library allows a process to change its title (as displayed by system tools such as ps and top).
Changing the title is mostly useful in multi-process systems, for example when a master process is forked: changing the children's title allows to identify the task each process is busy with. The technique is used by PostgreSQL and the OpenSSH Server for example.
The procedure is hardly portable across different systems. PostgreSQL provides a good multi-platform implementation: this module is a Python wrapper around PostgreSQL code.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a average size development team
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2009
ending with its most recent commit 2 months ago
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