Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add prctl to set sibling thread names

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 17:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:21:37 -0700
> john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Taking a very raw attempt at this, I scratched out the following
> > simple implementation. I'd appreciate any review or suggestions for
> > improvements. I'm not at all certain the passing of the thread pid_t
> > through the unsigned long is valid, for instance, or if
> > same_thread_group() is the right check to make sure we only change
> > siblings and not tid from other processes. So any advice on better
> > approaches would be great.
> > 
> > +				return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +			set_task_comm(tsk, comm);
> 
> 
> you're pretty much the first now who touches ->comm from
> not-the-thread-itself.... are you sure that is safe?

No, I'm not sure at all :)

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll see whats needed in set_task_comm().

thanks again
-john