From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:28:22 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [utils] Simplify setproctitle
X-Git-Url: https://git.cielonegro.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6eefe53329ad22a2b2c7be123b8a9b758a6ea205;p=youtube-dl.git

[utils] Simplify setproctitle
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 3574fc615..8b359cb77 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1126,11 +1126,11 @@ def setproctitle(title):
         libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6")
     except OSError:
         return
-    title = title
-    buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title) + 1)
-    buf.value = title.encode('utf-8')
+    title_bytes = title.encode('utf-8')
+    buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title_bytes))
+    buf.value = title_bytes
     try:
-        libc.prctl(15, ctypes.byref(buf), 0, 0, 0)
+        libc.prctl(15, buf, 0, 0, 0)
     except AttributeError:
         return  # Strange libc, just skip this