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    SubjectRe: Interesting race condition...
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    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...)

    Rob
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