From: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA option for prctl()
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:18:13 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20091003T131407-865@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1254518602.5050.4.camel@hurina
Timo Sirainen <tss <at> iki.fi> writes:
>
> PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA updates mm_struct->arg_start and arg_end to the
> given pointers, which makes it possible for user space to implement
> setproctitle(3) cleanly.
>
>
Why can't you use PR_SET_NAME ?
And with PR_SET_NAME, you can a name per thread, which you can't do by changing
arg[0] name (it should be shared across all thread).
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-03 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-02 21:23 [PATCH] Added PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA option for prctl() Timo Sirainen
2009-10-03 2:01 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-03 2:47 ` Timo Sirainen
2009-10-03 2:59 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-03 3:21 ` Timo Sirainen
2009-10-04 14:44 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-04 18:05 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-05 0:55 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-05 1:38 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-05 1:44 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-05 1:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-05 2:21 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-05 2:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-05 2:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-05 3:22 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-05 3:29 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-05 3:39 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-05 7:18 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-05 22:56 ` Timo Sirainen
2009-10-03 11:18 ` matthieu castet [this message]
2009-10-04 15:10 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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