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Timo Sirainen <tss <at> iki.fi> writes:

> 
> PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA updates mm_struct->arg_start and arg_end to the
> given pointers, which makes it possible for user space to implement
> setproctitle(3) cleanly.
> 
>
Why can't you use PR_SET_NAME ?

And with PR_SET_NAME, you can a name per thread, which you can't do by changing
arg[0] name (it should be shared across all thread).

Matthieu

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