linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] coredump: use task comm instead of (unknown)

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:26:04 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] coredump: use task comm instead of (unknown)

On 06/07, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
> On 06/07/2011 08:16 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > And, I am just noticed...
> >
> > 	for (p = path; *p; p++)
> > 		if (*p == '/')
> > 			*p = '!';
> >
> > Why??? I am not arguing, just curious.
>
> In fact the reason is in the patch 2/2:
>     coredump: escape / in hostname and comm

which I can't find ;)

but,

>     Change every occurence of / in comm and hostname to !. If the process
>     changes its name to contain /, the core is not dumped

Ah, indeed, somehow I forgot about !ispipe case.

Thanks.

Oleg.

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