Bug#1024811: linux: /proc/[pid]/stat unparsable
Donald Buczek dixit:
> To be fair, this daemon doesn't use /proc/pid/stat for that, but /proc/pid/comm
Yes, and that’s proper. The field in /proc/pid/stat is size-limited
and so not necessarily distinct.
> As /proc/pid/stat is also used in many places, it could as well use
> that to avoid code duplication or reuse data already read from the
> other source.
No, because the data in /stat is incomplete *and* anything using
it that would be affected by escaping was already broken.
bye,
//mirabilos
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