From 48863919065637b5651a20e3bc19086a78e187ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:29:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the --enable-single-binary=symlinks comm
 value fix

* 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