Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:11:33 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Broken procfs/status, related to kthreads Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0102042204480.97202-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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Hi, Whoever made procfs aware of kernel threads broke also the /proc/%pid/status line. Or, maybe it's a by-product of showing kthreads in the proc table... According to procfs(5), the status line contains several well-defined fields separated by spaces. However, the kernel thread names look like 'swi5: task queue' and 'swi1: net', which results in variable number of space-separated fields. As a consequence, some software that parses this line gives incorrect results. I noticed this while trying to fix mysterious coredumps in src/release/picobsd/tinyware/aps (which is obsolete anyway, but it should work). Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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