Re: Interesting race condition...

Rob Landley
2004-07-24T08:12:09Z

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 <barryn@pobox.com>

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
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