Messages in this thread | | | From | Tristan Wibberley <> | Subject | Re: Interesting race condition... | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:08:15 +0100 |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:42:37 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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...)
I think I have seen this exactly once. I ran helixplayer from a bash command line and it quit, immediately spouting something about how it couldn't find a file whose name looked remarkably similar to some environment variables. I had put it down to screwed terminal settings so I couldn't see I had pasted something in, and I immediately issued a reset, so I have no more information I'm afraid.
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