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prctl.2: Correct description of null-termination in PR_GET_NAME and PR_SET_NAME 

The size of the process name has always been at most 16 byte
_including_ the null terminator.  This also means that the
name returned by PR_GET_NAME is always null-terminated.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Andreas Schwab 2014-10-21 12:58:27 +02:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ using the value in the location pointed to by
.IR "(char\ *) arg2" .
The name can be up to 16 bytes long,
.\" TASK_COMM_LEN in include/linux/sched.h
and should be null-terminated if it contains fewer bytes.
including the terminating null byte.
This is the same attribute that can be set via
.BR pthread_setname_np (3)
and retrieved using
@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ Return the name of the calling thread,
in the buffer pointed to by
.IR "(char\ *) arg2" .
The buffer should allow space for up to 16 bytes;
the returned string will be null-terminated if it is shorter than that.
the returned string will be null-terminated.
.TP
.BR PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS " (since Linux 3.5)"
Set the calling process's