Re: Ghost processes in /proc with kernel 2.3.22
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:10:53 +0100 (BST)
> Process numbers do not appear in the listing of proc, it is possible
> to stat the contents of their directories. eg /proc/1234 does not
> exist, but stat /proc/1234/stat does. cat /proc/1234/stat would
> give an error.
This is quite normal with 2.3.x. You will also get random core dumps, crashes
and other problems if you use /proc heavily on those kernels.
Alan
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