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From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Change proc/<pid>/cmdline to 8k
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 07:38:08 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150604223807.GA17596@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95110.1433456291@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 06:18:11PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:07:30 +0900, Greg KH said:
> 
> > Applications shouldn't be messing around with the kernel command line.
> 
> He's looking at /proc/<PID>/cmdline, which is a different beast.

Ah, doh, you are right, nevermind...

> Presumably, he's looking at 'ps axwwwwwwwwwww' and still not seeing the
> full process commandline, and that irritates him for some reason...

Yeah, that's not a good thing to rely on to even be correct, as it is
easy for an application to change that value.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-04  4:22 Change proc/<pid>/cmdline to 8k Navin P
2015-06-04  5:17 ` Greg KH
2015-06-04  7:41   ` Navin P
2015-06-04  8:04     ` Greg KH
2015-06-04 15:36       ` Navin P
2015-06-04 22:07         ` Greg KH
2015-06-04 22:18           ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-04 22:38             ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-06-04 22:19         ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-05  3:21           ` Navin P
2015-06-16 10:34             ` Navin P

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