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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2008-02-04 22:27:21 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:07 -0800
commit59714d65dfbc86d5cb93adc5bac57a921cc2fa84 (patch)
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parent0ccf831cbee94df9c5006dd46248c0f07847dd7c (diff)
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get_task_comm(): return the result
It was dumb to make get_task_comm() return void. Change it to return a pointer to the resulting output for caller convenience. Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exec.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 282240afe99e..966c5c5b6741 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -947,12 +947,13 @@ static void flush_old_files(struct files_struct * files)
spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
}
-void get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk)
+char *get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk)
{
/* buf must be at least sizeof(tsk->comm) in size */
task_lock(tsk);
strncpy(buf, tsk->comm, sizeof(tsk->comm));
task_unlock(tsk);
+ return buf;
}
void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *buf)