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>
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 282240a..966c5c5 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -947,12 +947,13 @@
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)