On 05/16/2018 04:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Do we care at all that userspace has been wanting a safe interface for seproctitle() for a long time? Particularly one without a 16-byte limit. Might we solve two problems at once? -- Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
