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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 3/3] elf: use a macro instead of a raw number
Date: Wed,  1 Jul 2009 00:38:10 -0700 (PDT)
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> Use TASK_COMM_LEN instead of the raw number 16.

This is probably a bad idea.  elf_prpsinfo layout is a userland ABI.
AFAIK there is no reason TASK_COMM_LEN could not be enlarged in the kernel.


Thanks,
Roland