Bug#843485: mention () vs (()) of filename

To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: 843485@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#843485: mention () vs (()) of filename
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 12:22:44 +0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 87vavsau0b.fsf@jidanni.org>
Reply-to: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>, 843485@bugs.debian.org
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BH> The extra parentheses have no special meaning.

Well please document how they got there at least.

BH> What the documentation ought to mention is that a thread's name can
BH> be overridden using prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...). Care to send a patch?

I have no kernel knowledge.

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