Re: [PATCH] procfs: fix the output format in /proc/PID/wchan

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Thu Nov 22 2018 - 06:40:46 EST


On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 07:28:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:17:52 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Just add the missing newline.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> > @@ -370,11 +370,12 @@ static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> > wchan = get_wchan(task);
> > if (wchan && !lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname)) {
> > seq_puts(m, symname);
> > + seq_putc(m, '\n');
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > print0:
> > - seq_putc(m, '0');
> > + seq_puts(m, "0\n");
> > return 0;
> > }
> > #endif /* CONFIG_KALLSYMS */
>
> What is presently wrong with the wchan output? The changelog
> should explain such things, please.

It is just newline to make "cat /proc/*/wchan" output look cool.
But newline can break something.