linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and /proc/<pid>/status Name: field

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Date:	Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:58:16 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and /proc/<pid>/status Name: field

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:26:43 +0000
Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org> wrote:

> Today I noticed pgrep doesn't work.  It seems the reason is a missing
> Name: tag in the status file for a process in /proc.
> 
> # cat /proc/1/status
> init
> State:  S (sleeping)
> Tgid:   1
> Pid:    1
> PPid:   0
> TracerPid:      0
> ...etc, etc...
> 
> This is supposed to look like:
> # cat /proc/1/status
> Name:	init
> State:	S (sleeping)
> Tgid:	1
> Pid:	1
> PPid:	0
> TracerPid:	0
> ...
> 

Thanks.  Two (more) bugs in
proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces.patch

--- a/fs/proc/array.c~proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces-fix-3
+++ a/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ static inline void task_name(struct seq_
 
 	get_task_comm(tcomm, p);
 
+	seq_printf(m, "Name:\t");
 	end = m->buf + m->size;
 	buf = m->buf + m->count;
-	seq_printf(m, "Name:\n");
 	name = tcomm;
 	i = sizeof(tcomm);
 	while (i && (buf < end)) {
_

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