Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Jul 1996 05:09:05 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Wieger Opmeer <> | Subject | overwriting running text file? |
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A weird thing happened to my system today: after running 1.99.12 for 27 days I discovered a few stuck processes. These processes were the children of a daemon that had been killed. When I killed these processes one turned into a zombie, the other got stuck in disk wait. After a bit of research I found out that the text file of this process had been overwritten by a newer version of the daemon. /proc/<pid>/exe pointed to an inode that contained a file several hours newer than the start time of the process. I wonder how this could have happened, why was there no 'text file busy' error? Maybe because the parent of these processes was being debugged with gdb at the time?
Wieger Opmeer
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