From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267298AbUG1Qo2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:44:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267301AbUG1Qo1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:44:27 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:64645 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267298AbUG1Qmd (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:42:33 -0400 From: Rob Landley To: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: Interesting race condition... Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:42:37 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200407222204.46799.rob@landley.net> <20040728010546.3b7933d5.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040728010546.3b7933d5.pj@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407281142.37194.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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//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 -- www.linucon.org: Linux Expo and Science Fiction Convention October 8-10, 2004 in Austin Texas. (I'm the con chair.)