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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is it technically possible to give Python option of naming process of running script?
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:54:16 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2012-03-16, Prasad, Ramit <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> wrote:
>
>> One possible problem with linking from one's home directory is that
>> home directories are often on different filesystems than /usr/bin (or
>> wherever python is).  Using a symlink doesn't work, the process name
>> still ends up as python2.6 (or whatever the real binary is called).
> 
> Try a hardlink instead of symlink? It seems to work for me.

Not across different filesystems -- which was what I was talking
about.

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