* NEWS: Mention that the program name instead of argv[0] is used when calling prctl (PR_SET_NAME, ...). --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 60fc624cc..3ce4e5b7c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- would likely crash due to this undefined behavior. [bug introduced in coreutils-9.10] + On GNU/Linux, when configured with --enable-single-binary=symlinks, the comm + value listed in /proc/self/comm is now set to the program name rather than + argv[0]. Previously, when programs were invoked using their file name, the + comm value would contain path components. + [bug introduced with multi-call binary support in coreutils-8.23] + ** New Features 'env' and 'printenv' now support the --quoting-style option -- 2.56.0
