Make a function actually work (not throw an exception)

dool

@@ -2350,11 +2350,15 @@ def basename(name):
 def getnamebypid(pid, name):
     "Return the name of a process by taking best guesses and exclusion"
     ret = None
+
     try:
         #### man proc tells me there should be nulls in here, but sometimes it seems like spaces (esp google chrome)
-#        cmdline = open('/proc/%s/cmdline' % pid).read().split(('\0', ' '))
-        cmdline = linecache.getline('/proc/%s/cmdline' % pid, 1).split(('\0', ' '))
-        ret = basename(cmdline[0])
+        # cmdline = open('/proc/%s/cmdline' % pid).read().split(('\0', ' '))
+
+        cmdline = linecache.getline('/proc/%s/cmdline' % pid, 1).split('\0')
+        ret     = basename(cmdline[0])
+
+        # Strip off any scripting language name
         if ret in ('bash', 'csh', 'ksh', 'perl', 'python', 'ruby', 'sh'):
             ret = basename(cmdline[1])
         if ret.startswith('-'):
@@ -2363,6 +2367,7 @@ def getnamebypid(pid, name):
         if not ret: raise
     except:
         ret = basename(name)
+
     return ret
 
 def getcpunr():