Re: [oss-security] [patch] proc.5: tell how to parse /proc/*/stat correctly

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)]

Dominique Martinet writes:

> But, really, I just don't see how this can practically be said to be parsable...

In its current form it never will be.  The solution is to place
this variable-length field last.  Then you can "cut -d ' ' -f 51-"
to get the command+args part (assuming I counted all those fields
correctly ...)

Of course, this breaks backwards compatability.

--lyndon