On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:02:12 +0100 Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I thought Steven[1] and Kees[2] have already clearly explained why we > > do it like that, so I didn't give any more words on it. > > > > [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211025170503.59830a43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Steven was against switching task->comm[16] into a dynamically > allocated pointer. But he was not against storing longer names > separately. Just to be clear. I was recommending that the comm[16] would still behave like it does today. Where it is truncated. But if the name is longer, it could be stored in a separate location if the caller wanted to know the full name. -- Steve
