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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 94b9f20..220cc63 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Table of Contents 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields 3.4 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts + 3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -1409,3 +1410,11 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt + +3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm +-------------------------------------------------------- +These files provide a method to access a tasks comm value. It also allows for +a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm value. The comm value +is limited in size compared to the cmdline value, so writing anything longer +then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated +comm value. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt index 0d15ebc..a1e2e0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt @@ -248,9 +248,7 @@ code, that is done in the initialization code in the usual way: { struct proc_dir_entry *entry; - entry = create_proc_entry("sequence", 0, NULL); - if (entry) - entry->proc_fops = &ct_file_ops; + proc_create("sequence", 0, NULL, &ct_file_ops); return 0; } |