linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1202232256180.15517@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:59:54 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN
 != 16


On Thursday 2012-02-23 18:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>Teach ps(1) to look in /proc/pid/status for kernel threads?

To what end? The name in /proc/pid/status was also limited to
TASK_COMM_LEN.
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