Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2021 12:06:36 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] extend task comm from 16 to 24 |
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:02:12 +0100 Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> > I thought Steven[1] and Kees[2] have already clearly explained why we > > do it like that, so I didn't give any more words on it. > > > > [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211025170503.59830a43@gandalf.local.home/ > > Steven was against switching task->comm[16] into a dynamically > allocated pointer. But he was not against storing longer names > separately.
Just to be clear. I was recommending that the comm[16] would still behave like it does today. Where it is truncated. But if the name is longer, it could be stored in a separate location if the caller wanted to know the full name.
-- Steve
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