On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Krisztian Flautner wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to be able to lookup the process name given a pointer
> to the task_struct from the kernel. The code that needs to do this
> is running in the kernel, so I would prefer not to go through
> the proc file system.
>
> I am assuming that the data is in the mm structure that the
> task_struct points to. Is there a macro or a function that
> extracts this information? Does anyone have some code that does
> this?
Maybe the comm variable at task_struct struct?
Sometimes when I start a thread I make:
sprintf(current->comm, "name");
strcpy() should work fine.
-augusto
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