Re: Interesting race condition...

[Paul Jackson]

Rob wrote:
> I just saw a funky thing.  Here's the cut and past from the xterm...

Can you reproduce this by cat'ing /proc/<pid>/cmdline?  Can you get a
dump of the proc cmdline file to leak the environment sometimes?

It is this file that 'ps' is dumping for these options.  Adding the
'e' option would also dump the /proc/<pid>/environ file (if readable).

But you aren't adding 'e', so presumably the environment is "leaking"
into the the cmdline file.

I suspect a kernel bug here - the ps code seems rather obvious and
unimpeachable.

-- 
                          I won't rest till it's the best ...
                          Programmer, Linux Scalability
                          Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> 1.650.933.1373
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/