Bug 155943
| Summary: | /proc/$$/auxv has zero size | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Andrew Cagney <cagney> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ingo Molnar <mingo> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | davej, jjohnstn, mnewsome |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-06-20 16:00:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 116894 | ||
/proc files are special and rarely match their true size. Check out 'ls -l /proc'. Does this issue have any practical relevance? Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue. |
Description of problem: /proc's per-process AUXV has a finite size (the size doesn't change during the lifetime of the process) yet $ ls -l /proc/$$/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