Hello Arkadiusz, On 6/17/20 10:51 PM, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: > 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> Thanks. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > --- > 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 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
