Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and /proc/<pid>/status Name: field

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Dec 07 2007 - 18:59:01 EST


On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:26:43 +0000
Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Today I noticed pgrep doesn't work. It seems the reason is a missing
> Name: tag in the status file for a process in /proc.
>
> # cat /proc/1/status
> init
> State: S (sleeping)
> Tgid: 1
> Pid: 1
> PPid: 0
> TracerPid: 0
> ...etc, etc...
>
> This is supposed to look like:
> # cat /proc/1/status
> Name: init
> State: S (sleeping)
> Tgid: 1
> Pid: 1
> PPid: 0
> TracerPid: 0
> ...
>

Thanks. Two (more) bugs in
proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces.patch

--- a/fs/proc/array.c~proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces-fix-3
+++ a/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ static inline void task_name(struct seq_

get_task_comm(tcomm, p);

+ seq_printf(m, "Name:\t");
end = m->buf + m->size;
buf = m->buf + m->count;
- seq_printf(m, "Name:\n");
name = tcomm;
i = sizeof(tcomm);
while (i && (buf < end)) {
_

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