Messages in this thread | | | From | "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <> | Subject | Re: [oss-security] [patch] proc.5: tell how to parse /proc/*/stat correctly | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:44:49 -0800 |
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Dominique Martinet writes:
> But, really, I just don't see how this can practically be said to be parsable...
In its current form it never will be. The solution is to place this variable-length field last. Then you can "cut -d ' ' -f 51-" to get the command+args part (assuming I counted all those fields correctly ...)
Of course, this breaks backwards compatability.
--lyndon
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