pgrep for example searches for a process name in /proc/pid/status and therefore cannot find processes whose names are longer than 15 characters unless -f is specified. Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man5/proc.5 | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 538c6c6..edaf281 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -2089,6 +2089,9 @@ The process ID. .TP (2) \fIcomm\fP \ %s The filename of the executable, in parentheses. +Strings longer than +.B TASK_COMM_LEN +(16) characters (including the terminating null byte) are silently truncated. This is visible whether or not the executable is swapped out. .TP (3) \fIstate\fP \ %c @@ -2504,6 +2507,9 @@ The fields are as follows: .IP * 2 .IR Name : Command run by this process. +Strings longer than +.B TASK_COMM_LEN +(16) characters (including the terminating null byte) are silently truncated. .IP * .IR Umask : Process umask, expressed in octal with a leading zero; see -- 2.9.0
