Control: tag -1 upstream Control: retitle -1 proc.txt does not mention that task names can be overridden On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 07:09 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: linux-doc-4.8 > Version: 4.8.5-1 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-4.8/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.gz > > One only sees > tcomm filename of the executable > > But no explanation of () vs (()) > > $ perl -anwle 'print $F[1]' /proc/[0-9]*/stat|sort -u|head > ((sd-pam)) > (Xorg) > (acpi_thermal_pm) The extra parentheses have no special meaning. What the documentation ought to mention is that a thread's name can be overridden using prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...). Care to send a patch? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
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