* Tavis Ormandy <taviso@xxxxxxxxx>, 2022-12-28 01:50:
But, really, I just don't see how this can practically be said to be
parsable...
In its current form it never will be. The solution is to place this
variable-length field last. Then you can "cut -d ' ' -f 51-" to get
the command+args part (assuming I counted all those fields correctly
...)
Of course, this breaks backwards compatability.
I think that cut command doesn't handle newlines,
Indeed.
There already is 'ps -q $$ -o >comm='
FWIW, "ps ... -o comm=" doesn't just print the raw comm value: it
replaces non-printable chars with punctuation characters, and it may
append " <defunct>" if the process is a zombie.
The easiest way to get unmangled comm is to read it from
/proc/$PID/comm, then strip the trailing newline.
(But I suspect most /proc/*/stat parsers don't care about the comm field
at all; they just want to skip over it to get their hands on the
following fields.)
--
Jakub Wilk
