After version 0.5, property cmdline of Process is cacheable. Could you explain why so? There are a lot of situations, when process cmdline contains some valuable information, which should be processed/validated.

Thanks.

p.s. update psutil from 0.4.1 to 0.6.1, with cacheable cmdline, completely crashed our mail fetching monitoring system :)

Cmdline is cached bacause is not supposed to change during the entire lifetime of the process (the same applies for process pid, ppid, name an exe). How exactly your code was affected by this change? The only difference in terms of compatibility should be that in case the process disappears NoSuchProcess is no longer raised.

runsvdir (of runit) alters its .cmdline to include recent stderr messages from all child processes.

Fixed in r1570.

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Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r1570 == revision 9d2f1e41eee3