Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:27:38 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procfs problems -cmdline turncated at 256 bytes ? Message-ID: <20030621092738.GA2401@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <E19TM9P-000J3O-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003, Pete French wrote: > > running 4.8 stable, the cmdline file in /proc/$$ seems to be trucated > at, or before 256 bytes for very long command lines. I cant find > any refernec to this behaviour in the manpage, nor does google reveal > anything. I took a look in the source, but didnt properly understand what > was going on - the comments imply that it does give the full commandline > for the current process, however. > > any suggestions ? any alternative ways to get hold of the arguments from > within a running program (which doesnt have access to "main()"). You may be able to get this to work if you use dd with a large enough block size, assuming dd doesn't get confused by the extra EOFs. There's a similar issue with the code that prints the process' memory map, and in that case, making the transfer size larger works around the problem.home | help
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