Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueue | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:24:32 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> wrote: > > yeah ... cannot remember why i have done it originally :-|
> Might it be to do with sizeof(task_struct.comm)?
But that's 16 bytes not 10; and anyway, it doesn't have to be unique; set_task_comm just does a strlcpy from the name, so it will be truncated (same as for a binary with > 15 character name).
James
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