From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, harald@redhat.com, david@fubar.dk,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:16:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9F5A3E.7050408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111007001356.GA11994@tango.0pointer.de>
On 10/06/2011 05:13 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>
> Well, I am aware of PR_SET_NAME, but that modifies comm, not argv[]. And
> while "top" indeed shows the former, "ps" shows the latter. We are looking
> for a way to nice way to modify argv[] without having to reuse space
> from environ[] like most current Linux implementations of
> setproctitle() do.
>
> A while back there were patches for PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA floating
> around. We'd like to see something like that merged one day.
>
A saner thing would be if the initial argv[] area couldn't be modified
at all, and that an explicit system call was required to change the
title displayed by ps or top, but that ps or top could be forced to show
the argv as initially passed to the process.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 23:17 A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux Kay Sievers
2011-10-06 23:46 ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-07 0:13 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-07 1:57 ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-07 15:58 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-19 23:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-10-07 7:49 ` Matt Helsley
2011-10-07 16:01 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-08 4:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-10 16:31 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-10 20:59 ` Detecting if you are running in a container Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-10 21:41 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-11 5:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-11 6:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-12 16:59 ` Kay Sievers
2011-11-01 22:05 ` [lxc-devel] " Michael Tokarev
2011-11-01 23:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-11-02 8:08 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-10-11 1:32 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-11 2:05 ` Matt Helsley
2011-10-11 3:25 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-11 6:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-11 12:53 ` Theodore Tso
2011-10-11 21:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-11 22:30 ` david
2011-10-12 4:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-12 5:10 ` david
2011-10-12 15:08 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-12 17:57 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-12 18:25 ` Kyle Moffett
2011-10-12 19:04 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-12 19:12 ` Kyle Moffett
2011-10-14 15:54 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-14 18:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-14 21:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-16 9:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-30 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-01 13:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-11 22:25 ` david
2011-10-07 10:12 ` A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux Alan Cox
2011-10-07 10:28 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-07 10:38 ` Alan Cox
2011-10-07 12:46 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-07 13:39 ` Theodore Tso
2011-10-07 15:21 ` Hugo Mills
2011-10-10 11:18 ` A Plumber???s " David Sterba
2011-10-10 11:18 ` David Sterba
2011-10-10 13:09 ` Theodore Tso
2011-10-13 0:28 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-14 15:47 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-11 13:14 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-11 15:49 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2011-10-12 2:31 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-12 20:51 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-08 9:53 ` A Plumber’s " Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-10-09 3:15 ` Alex Elsayed
2011-10-07 16:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-07 12:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-10-07 18:59 ` Greg KH
2011-10-09 12:20 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-09 8:45 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-11 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-12 0:53 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-10-12 0:59 ` Frederic Weisbecker
[not found] ` <20111012174014.GE6281@google.com>
2011-10-12 18:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-10-14 15:38 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-10-14 16:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-10-14 16:08 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-10-14 16:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-10-19 21:19 ` Paul Menage
2011-10-19 21:12 ` Paul Menage
2011-10-19 23:03 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-19 23:09 ` Paul Menage
2011-10-19 23:31 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-22 10:21 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-10-22 15:28 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-25 5:40 ` Li Zefan
2011-10-30 17:18 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-01 1:27 ` Li Zefan
[not found] <CAE2SPAZci=u__d58phePCftVr_e+i+N2YU-JYjGDG_b3TmYTSQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-07 13:40 ` Alan Cox
2011-10-07 14:57 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
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