From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueue
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:24:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1123694672.5134.11.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050810100523.0075d4e8.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> wrote:
> > yeah ... cannot remember why i have done it originally :-|
> Might it be to do with sizeof(task_struct.comm)?
But that's 16 bytes not 10; and anyway, it doesn't have to be unique;
set_task_comm just does a strlcpy from the name, so it will be truncated
(same as for a binary with > 15 character name).
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-10 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-10 14:19 [PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueue James Bottomley
2005-08-10 14:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-10 17:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-10 17:24 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-08-10 17:37 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-10 17:54 ` James Bottomley
2005-08-10 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-11 14:37 ` Simon Derr
2005-08-11 16:22 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-08-10 18:49 ` Frederic TEMPORELLI - astek
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2005-08-11 18:48 Andreas Herrmann
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