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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000
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-.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com>
-.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-.\"
-.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-.\"
-.TH proc_pid_comm 5 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.SH NAME
-/proc/pid/comm \- command name
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.TP
-.IR /proc/ pid /comm " (since Linux 2.6.33)"
-.\" commit 4614a696bd1c3a9af3a08f0e5874830a85b889d4
-This file exposes the process's
-.I comm
-value\[em]that is, the command name associated with the process.
-Different threads in the same process may have different
-.I comm
-values, accessible via
-.IR /proc/ pid /task/ tid /comm .
-A thread may modify its
-.I comm
-value, or that of any of other thread in the same thread group (see
-the discussion of
-.B CLONE_THREAD
-in
-.BR clone (2)),
-by writing to the file
-.IR /proc/self/task/ tid /comm .
-Strings longer than
-.B TASK_COMM_LEN
-(16) characters (including the terminating null byte) are silently truncated.
-.IP
-This file provides a superset of the
-.BR prctl (2)
-.B PR_SET_NAME
-and
-.B PR_GET_NAME
-operations, and is employed by
-.BR pthread_setname_np (3)
-when used to rename threads other than the caller.
-The value in this file is used for the
-.I %e
-specifier in
-.IR /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern ;
-see
-.BR core (5).
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR proc (5)