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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-04 22:27:21 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -0800 |
| commit | 59714d65dfbc86d5cb93adc5bac57a921cc2fa84 (patch) | |
| tree | 10eda85ccab88fb707d6c6b4f4fb7f2e9bd1f4e1 | |
| parent | 0ccf831cbee94df9c5006dd46248c0f07847dd7c (diff) | |
| download | linux-59714d65dfbc86d5cb93adc5bac57a921cc2fa84.tar.bz2 | |
get_task_comm(): return the result
It was dumb to make get_task_comm() return void. Change it to return a
pointer to the resulting output for caller convenience.
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/exec.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 282240afe99e..966c5c5b6741 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -947,12 +947,13 @@ static void flush_old_files(struct files_struct * files) spin_unlock(&files->file_lock); } -void get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk) +char *get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk) { /* buf must be at least sizeof(tsk->comm) in size */ task_lock(tsk); strncpy(buf, tsk->comm, sizeof(tsk->comm)); task_unlock(tsk); + return buf; } void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *buf) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index af6947e69b40..680bb03a4b90 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@ extern long do_fork(unsigned long, unsigned long, struct pt_regs *, unsigned lon struct task_struct *fork_idle(int); extern void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *from); -extern void get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk); +extern char *get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP extern void wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct * p); |