Indicate that the actual value will be one character less. Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 104c6d047d9b..c0e92a056079 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -1899,8 +1899,9 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: These files provide a method to access a task's comm value. It also allows for a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm value. The comm value is limited in size compared to the cmdline value, so writing anything longer -then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated -comm value. +then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars, including the null +terminator, which is printed as the line feed character in the file) will result +in a truncated comm value. 3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children -- 2.43.0
