From 59714d65dfbc86d5cb93adc5bac57a921cc2fa84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:27:21 -0800
Subject: get_task_comm(): return the result

It was dumb to make get_task_comm() return void.  Change it to return a
pointer to the resulting output for caller convenience.

Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/exec.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'fs/exec.c')

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 282240afe99..966c5c5b674 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -947,12 +947,13 @@ static void flush_old_files(struct files_struct * files)
 	spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
 }
 
-void get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk)
+char *get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	/* buf must be at least sizeof(tsk->comm) in size */
 	task_lock(tsk);
 	strncpy(buf, tsk->comm, sizeof(tsk->comm));
 	task_unlock(tsk);
+	return buf;
 }
 
 void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *buf)
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