Donald Buczek dixit: > To be fair, this daemon doesn't use /proc/pid/stat for that, but /proc/pid/comm Yes, and that’s proper. The field in /proc/pid/stat is size-limited and so not necessarily distinct. > As /proc/pid/stat is also used in many places, it could as well use > that to avoid code duplication or reuse data already read from the > other source. No, because the data in /stat is incomplete *and* anything using it that would be affected by escaping was already broken. bye, //mirabilos -- 22:20⎜<asarch> The crazy that persists in his craziness becomes a master 22:21⎜<asarch> And the distance between the craziness and geniality is only measured by the success 18:35⎜<asarch> "Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent
