[lxc-devel] [lxc/master] util: update setproctitle comments

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From 7d6c20f25fc12d744b5c1e5c6a41fd8aa04a7463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen at canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:30:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] util: update setproctitle comments

Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen at canonical.com>
---
 src/lxc/utils.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lxc/utils.c b/src/lxc/utils.c
index 24000aa..b6a351c 100644
--- a/src/lxc/utils.c
+++ b/src/lxc/utils.c
@@ -1405,11 +1405,8 @@ char *get_template_path(const char *t)
 }
 
 /*
- * Sets the process title to the specified title. Note:
- *   1. this function requires root to succeed
- *   2. it clears /proc/self/environ
- *   3. it may not succed (e.g. if title is longer than /proc/self/environ +
- *      the original title)
+ * Sets the process title to the specified title. Note that this may fail if
+ * the kernel doesn't support PR_SET_MM_MAP (kernels <3.18).
  */
 int setproctitle(char *title)
 {


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