On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 10:59, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > I've noticed in `ps` output that one particular > process is shown only until its last slash, i.e. > instead of /opt/BOS/test.out its /opt/BOS > I've checked in its /proc/xxx directory and > in "cmdline" there is a '\0' in place of last > slash !! > > I'm using 2.4.18 kernel and latest BusyBox. > > Who is responsible for updating appropriate > /proc directory when a process starts ?
The cmdline proc entry comes from the ps->comm value from the kernel struct task which gets initialized by the argv[0] parameter to exec and friends. In short - it's the application (or whatever spawned it) fault. To see that this is indeed so strace whatever processes spawns the "buggy" one one and see what are the exact parameters passed. Cheers, Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "Denial really is a river in Eygept." ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
