[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] lib/bb/utils: fix set_process_name

[Ross Burton]

With Python 3 create_string_buffer needs a bytes() not a str() but as we were
catching all exceptions nobody noticed.

[ YOCTO #9910 ]

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
---
 bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
index 0a1bf68..3bc2437 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
@@ -1444,9 +1444,8 @@ def set_process_name(name):
     # This is nice to have for debugging, not essential
     try:
         libc = cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.6')
-        buff = create_string_buffer(len(name)+1)
-        buff.value = name
-        libc.prctl(15, byref(buff), 0, 0, 0)
+        buf = create_string_buffer(bytes(name, 'utf-8'))
+        libc.prctl(15, byref(buf), 0, 0, 0)
     except:
         pass
 
-- 
2.8.1