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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.prima.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.40 (BK of today) vmstat SIGSEGV after reading /proc/stat
Date: 05 Oct 2002 13:59:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033840762.909.3669.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021005171245.GA3060@oscar.dorf.de>

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:12, Patrick Mau wrote:

> The BK tree of today changed the data returned in /proc/stat.
> A 'vmstat -n 10' immediatly segfaults after reading ...
> 
> open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY)            = 6
> read(6, "cpu  404408 506514 8240 154301 1"..., 4095) = 714
> close(6)                                = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

The format changed, on purpose.  You need vmstat from a newer version of
procps.  The newest version (2.0.9) and CVS dumps as-of yesterday are
available at:

	http://tech9.net/rml/procps

as both tarballs and RPM packages.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-05 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-05 17:12 Patrick Mau
2002-10-05 17:59 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-10-05 18:41 Dieter Nützel
2002-10-05 19:53 ` Robert Love

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