commit 13de78a989b4e9ba68ffcecdd6022335baae4b39 Author: Damian Johnson <atagar@torproject.org> Date: Mon Feb 18 07:42:46 2013 -0800 Catching unexpected exception from libc.setproctitle() Sathyanarayanan reports that on OSX libc.setproctitle() can raise an AttributeError... ERROR: test_set_process_name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback: File "/Users/sathya/Documents/stem/test/integ/util/system.py", line 412, in test_set_process_name stem.util.system.set_process_name(initial_name) File "/Users/sathya/Documents/stem/stem/util/system.py", line 774, in set_process_name _set_proc_title(process_name) File "/Users/sathya/Documents/stem/stem/util/system.py", line 831, in _set_proc_title libc.setproctitle(ctypes.byref(name_buffer)) File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 366, in __getattr__ func = self.__getitem__(name) File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 371, in __getitem__ func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self)) AttributeError: dlsym(0x7fff6a41d1e0, setproctitle): symbol not found https://trac.torproject.org/8266 --- stem/util/system.py | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/stem/util/system.py b/stem/util/system.py index 0a42881..688475f 100644 --- a/stem/util/system.py +++ b/stem/util/system.py @@ -828,4 +828,11 @@ def _set_proc_title(process_name): libc = ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library("c")) name_buffer = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(process_name) + 1) name_buffer.value = process_name - libc.setproctitle(ctypes.byref(name_buffer)) + + try: + libc.setproctitle(ctypes.byref(name_buffer)) + except AttributeError: + # Possible issue (seen on OSX): + # AttributeError: dlsym(0x7fff6a41d1e0, setproctitle): symbol not found + + pass