[$] The kernel’s command-line commotion

Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/999770/

For the most part, the 6.13 merge window has gone smoothly, with relatively
few problems or disagreements — other than this
one
, of course. There is one other exception, though, relating to the
kernel’s presentation of a process’s command line to interested user-space
observers when a relatively new system call is used. A pull request with a
simple change to make that information more user-friendly ran afoul of
Linus Torvalds, who has his own view of how it should be managed.