From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268349AbUGXIMJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 04:12:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268360AbUGXIMJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 04:12:09 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:3507 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268349AbUGXIMG (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 04:12:06 -0400 From: Rob Landley To: "Barry K. Nathan" Subject: Re: Interesting race condition... Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 03:13:19 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200407222204.46799.rob@landley.net> <20040723073300.GA4502@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040723073300.GA4502@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407240313.19053.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 23 July 2004 02:33, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:04:46PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > Seems like some kind of race condition, dunno if it's in Fedore Core 1's > > ps or the 2.6.7 kernel or what... > > I've seen this too, on Fedora Core 2 and pretty recent (within the last > 2 weeks) fc-devel. Hard enough to reproduce (and not enough of a bother > IMO) that I haven't filed it in Bugzilla though. > > (Now that you mention Fedora Core, I can't remember seeing this with any > other distributions.) > > -Barry K. Nathan Oh I can't reproduce it either. (Maybe if I set some kind of loop and left it running for a few days...) I just thought it was really odd. There should be a null terminator before the environment variables, and it's getting stomped somehow. Maybe it was right as the process was starting...? Rob -- www.linucon.org: Linux Expo and Science Fiction Convention October 8-10, 2004 in Austin Texas. (I'm the con chair.)