From: Steven Stewart-Gallus <sstewartgallus00@mylangara.bc.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: How can I parse the command name from /proc/<pid>/stat?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:44:25 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc15da367389.5480b999@langara.bc.ca> (raw)
Hello,
Given an evil hacker trying to confuse process monitors that might use such
strange process names as 'pause) R 0 0 (foo' how can I correctly parse the
command name from /proc/<pid>/stat? Maybe I should just use /proc/<pid>/status?
Maybe there should be some documentation written on the issue? I just wanted to
send an email off to check if I was missing anything before writing a few small
additions to the documentation or filing a bug report. procps-ng seems to use an
ugly hack that involves knowing the limits on the size of a possible command
name that I'm not actually sure works totally correctly.
Thank you,
Steven Stewart-Gallus
next reply other threads:[~2014-12-04 19:44 UTC|newest]
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2014-12-04 19:44 Steven Stewart-Gallus [this message]
2014-12-05 10:34 ` How can I parse the command name from /proc/<pid>/stat? Suzuki K. Poulose
2014-12-06 23:04 ` Steven Stewart-Gallus
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