Hello,
Given an evil hacker trying to confuse process monitors that might use such
strange process names as 'pause) R 0 0 (foo' how can I correctly parse the
command name from /proc/<pid>/stat? Maybe I should just use /proc/<pid>/status?
Maybe there should be some documentation written on the issue? I just wanted to
send an email off to check if I was missing anything before writing a few small
additions to the documentation or filing a bug report. procps-ng seems to use an
ugly hack that involves knowing the limits on the size of a possible command
name that I'm not actually sure works totally correctly.
Thank you,
Steven Stewart-Gallus
On 04/12/14 19:44, Steven Stewart-Gallus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Given an evil hacker trying to confuse process monitors that might use such
> strange process names as 'pause) R 0 0 (foo' how can I correctly parse the
> command name from /proc/<pid>/stat? Maybe I should just use /proc/<pid>/status?
> Maybe there should be some documentation written on the issue? I just wanted to
> send an email off to check if I was missing anything before writing a few small
> additions to the documentation or filing a bug report. procps-ng seems to use an
> ugly hack that involves knowing the limits on the size of a possible command
> name that I'm not actually sure works totally correctly.
You can do something like :
cmd_start = strchr(stat_buf, '(');
cmd_end = strrchr(stat_buf, ')');
Cheers
Suzuki
>
> Thank you,
> Steven Stewart-Gallus
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Thank you, I dislike the idea of relying upon stat never gaining any other part
that uses ) but that would work instead of using status.