lib/bb/utils: fix set_process_name

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@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/lib/bb/utils.py b/lib/bb/utils.py
index 0a1bf6880ae1ef590066f1e95cdc2c94ada9af4e..3bc243723bb5272a2f8508363b0d1c0cc3ae573e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/bb/utils.py
+++ b/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