Bug 155943

Summary: /proc/$$/auxv has zero size
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Andrew Cagney <cagney>
Component: kernelAssignee: Ingo Molnar <mingo>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: davej, jjohnstn, mnewsome
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Description Andrew Cagney 2005-04-25 22:24:08 UTC 
Description of problem:

/proc's per-process AUXV has a finite size (the size doesn't change during the
lifetime of the process) yet

$ ls -l /proc/$$/auxv
-r--------  1 cagney cagney 0 Apr 25 18:14 /proc/12877/auxv
$ file /proc/$$/auxv
/proc/12877/auxv: empty
$ wc -c !$
wc -c /proc/$$/auxv
0 /proc/12877/auxv
$ cat /proc/$$/auxv | wc -c
128

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL-4 FC-4

How reproducible:

100%

Expected results:

$ ls -l /proc/$$/auxv
-r--------   1 cagney   cagney       152 Apr 25 15:09 /proc/23038/auxv
$ wc -c /proc/$$/auxv
     152 /proc/23038/auxv
Comment 1 Ingo Molnar 2005-09-15 22:37:35 UTC 
/proc files are special and rarely match their true size. Check out 'ls -l
/proc'. Does this issue have any practical relevance?
Comment 3 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:00:56 UTC 
Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
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