On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:00 PM Linus Torvalds < torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 1:45 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Do we care at all that userspace has been wanting a safe interface for > > setproctitle() for a long time? Particularly one without a 16-byte limit. > > Might we solve two problems at once? > Note that we'll inevitably always have *some* limit, so I doubt we'll ever > get over that. > And we actually do have a way to fill comm. Writing to /proc/<pid>/comm > already does exactly that. It obviously will truncate to whatever the > current limit is, but you can write anything you want. Or you can use prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...). -- 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
