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Setting "process name" with twistd 2007-03-24

Little known twistd feature:

exarkun@boson:~$ cat foo.tac
from twisted.application.service import Application, IProcess

application = Application("Demonstrate twistd process name support")
IProcess(application).processName = "name-demo"
exarkun@boson:~$ twistd -y foo.tac
exarkun@boson:~$ pidof name-demo
11097
exarkun@boson:~$