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From: Steven Stewart-Gallus <sstewartgallus00@mylangara.bc.ca>
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Subject: How can I parse the command name from /proc/<pid>/stat?
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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
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