Bug 1045455 - chromium proc name is wrongly named "chromium-browse"
Summary: chromium proc name is wrongly named "chromium-browse"
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: procps
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaromír Cápík
QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-20 13:13 UTC by Tomas Pelka
Modified: 2016-02-01 01:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-01-08 13:01:43 UTC
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Description Tomas Pelka 2013-12-20 13:13:55 UTC
Description of problem:
pgrep reports different process names for chromium-browser

$ pgrep -l chromium
21427 chromium-browse
21432 chromium-browse
21434 chromium-browse
21437 chromium-browse
21480 chromium-browse
21497 chromium-browse
21502 chromium-browse
21508 chromium-browse
21513 chromium-browse
21518 chromium-browse
21523 chromium-browse
21794 chromium-browse

$ ps aux | grep chromium
tpelka   21427 65.8  7.6 1247456 456384 ?      SLl  14:07   1:12 /opt/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --enable-plugins --enable-extensions --enable-user-scripts --enable-printing --enable-sync --auto-ssl-client-auth --ppapi-flash-path=/opt/chromium-browser/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=11.9.900.170
....

$ ps -e | grep chromium
21427 ?        00:01:12 chromium-browse
21432 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21434 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21437 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21480 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21497 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21502 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21508 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21513 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21518 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21523 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
21794 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse

$ cat /proc/21427/status | grep Name
Name:	chromium-browse 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
procps-3.2.8-25.el6.x86_64
chromium-31.0.1650.63-1.el6_5.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
chromium process is called "chromium-browse"

Expected results:
The name should be "chromium-browser"

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jaromír Cápík 2014-01-08 13:01:43 UTC
As proces names are limited to 15 chars + null terminator, this seems to be correct behaviour. Closing.


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