On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 1:13 PM Linus Torvalds <
torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Craig? Is there some "proper channel" I should go through to ask for a
> bigger possible command line?
Side note: the size of 'comm[]' in the kernel has changed before. It
originally used to be just 8 characters.
Admittedly, that changed to 16 a _loong_ time ago (in 0.99.2, back in
1993), but it is probably a good idea for procps to not assume a hard limit
regardless.
My longest basename right now seems to be
'evolution-addressbook-factory-subprocess'
which is 40 characters. So obviously a 16-byte 'comm[]' was a lot back in
1993, but we might want to grow it again, regardless of that whole kworker
thing.
Linus
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