Hello Andreas, On 10/21/2014 12:58 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > The size of the process name has always been at most 16 byte _including_ > the null terminator. This also means that the name returned by > PR_GET_NAME is always null-terminated. Thanks. I applied this. One comment below. > Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> > --- > man2/prctl.2 | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2 > index 1199891..4351ff9 100644 > --- a/man2/prctl.2 > +++ b/man2/prctl.2 > @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ using the value in the location pointed to by > .IR "(char\ *) arg2" . > The name can be up to 16 bytes long, > .\" TASK_COMM_LEN in include/linux/sched.h > -and should be null-terminated if it contains fewer bytes. > +including the terminating null byte. I added here: (If the length of the string, including the terminating null byte, exceeds 16 bytes, the string is silently truncated.) Okay? Cheers, Michael > This is the same attribute that can be set via > .BR pthread_setname_np (3) > and retrieved using > @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ Return the name of the calling thread, > in the buffer pointed to by > .IR "(char\ *) arg2" . > The buffer should allow space for up to 16 bytes; > -the returned string will be null-terminated if it is shorter than that. > +the returned string will be null-terminated. > .TP > .BR PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS " (since Linux 3.5)" > Set the calling process's > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
