Re: [PATCH] proc,fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION
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- Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 2020-07-25 22:10:37
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- Pascal Bouchareine, 2020-07-25
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 05:40:43PM -0700, Pascal Bouchareine wrote:
This command attaches a description to a file descriptor for troubleshooting purposes. The free string is displayed in the process fdinfo file for that fd /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd. One intended usage is to allow processes to self-document sockets for netstat and friends to report
Have you even tried to test it? When will it ever free those things?