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From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Chris Swiedler <chris.swiedler@sevista.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: getting a process name from task struct
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 10:03:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A0AE6E4.103C13F5@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIAJKLMMHOGKNMGFNCEEHCPAA.chris.swiedler@sevista.com>

Chris Swiedler wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to get a process's name / full execution path (from
> kernelspace) given only a task struct? I can't find any pointers to this
> information in the task struct, and I don't know where else it might be. ps
> seems to be able to get the process name, but that's from userspace.
> Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question.
> 
> chris
> 
Try the "comm" member of task_struct.  (Clear name, right?)

George
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-09 17:45 getting a process name from task struct Chris Swiedler
2000-11-09 18:03 ` George Anzinger [this message]

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