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Re: bug in /proc/*/cmdline


On Jul 19 16:23, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote:
> Hi
> 
> /proc/*/cmdline contains one extra <nul> which makes pgrep,pkill and ps misbehave
> 
> on cygwin
> $ cat /proc/self/cmdline |od -c
> 0000000   c   a   t  \0   /   p   r   o   c   /   s   e   l   f   /   c
> 0000020   m   d   l   i   n   e  \0  \0
> 0000030
> note the terminating <nul><nul>
> 
> on linux(trustix)
> baf@xxx ~/procps$  cat /proc/self/cmdline |od -c
> 0000000   c   a   t  \0   /   p   r   o   c   /   s   e   l   f   /   c
> 0000020   m   d   l   i   n   e  \0
> 0000027
> 
> This diff makes
> sleep 100&
> pgrep -fx "sleep 100"
> #fail
> #but
> pgrep -fx "sleep 100 "
> #works

Thanks for the hint.  Fixed in CVS.


Corinna

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