Re: Interesting race condition...

Rob Landley
2004-07-28T16:44:28Z

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 03:05, Paul Jackson wrote:
> 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?

I saw it exactly once, I'm afraid. Somebody else said they also saw it...
once. It smelled to me like a race condition, with the process
starting/exiting right as ps looked at it, but I haven't seen it again. (I
could run the command in a loop overnight...)

Rob
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