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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueue
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:24:32 -0500
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On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> wrote:
> > yeah ... cannot remember why i have done it originally :-|

> Might it be to do with sizeof(task_struct.comm)?

But that's 16 bytes not 10; and anyway, it doesn't have to be unique;
set_task_comm just does a strlcpy from the name, so it will be truncated
(same as for a binary with > 15 character name).

James