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| author | Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name> | 2024-02-05 16:41:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2024-02-12 16:42:13 -0700 |
| commit | 2d1ab26acee4c46af998cd0ce655f520adb40d25 (patch) | |
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docs: proc.rst: comm: mention the included NUL
Indicate that the actual value will be one character less.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205154100.736499-1-mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name
[jc: did s/null/NUL/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 104c6d047d9b..c6a6b9df2104 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -1899,8 +1899,8 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: These files provide a method to access a task's comm value. It also allows for a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm value. The comm value is limited in size compared to the cmdline value, so writing anything longer -then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated -comm value. +then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars, including the NUL +terminator) will result in a truncated comm value. 3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children |