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opentelemetry-sdk: don't read other resource attributes when building default service.name - #5547

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Description

Always use sys.executable if available instead of looking at an eventual process.executable.name set in resource attributes.

Fixes #5544

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opentelemetry-sdk: don't read other resource attributes when building…
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… default service.name

Always use sys.executable if available instead.
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opentelemetry-sdk: change behaviour of default service.name

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