From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262450AbUG1TVf (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:21:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262756AbUG1TVe (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:21:34 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:6059 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262450AbUG1TVO (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:21:14 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tristan Wibberley Subject: Re: Interesting race condition... Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:08:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200407222204.46799.rob@landley.net> <20040728010546.3b7933d5.pj@sgi.com> <200407281142.37194.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host217-43-27-25.range217-43.btcentralplus.com User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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//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. -- I have a little sig...