Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH] Remove 16-character limit on process title

[Andreas Färber]

Hello,

Am 05.11.2010 um 17:35 schrieb John Morrissey:

> qemu uses prctl() to set its process title. I bumped up against  
> prctl()'s
> 16-character limit recently, when adding process title support to
> libvirt[1][2].
>
> The attached patch overwrites argv instead. Linux seems to maintain  
> the
> length of the original args, even when the new args are shorter and
> NULL-terminated, so the trailing whitespace in ps(1) output is  
> probably
> unavoidable. I've seen the same result with other daemons that  
> overwrite
> argv.

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Andreas

> john
>
> [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-October/msg00565.html
> [2] 
> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=c08c7b0143b8cdc542e5f4137623d412340c5cf2
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> <qemu-remove-process-title-length-limit.patch>