Subject: bug#36279: 26.2.90; (process-attributes nonexistent-pid) segmentation fault

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:01:22 +0200

On Jun 19 2019, Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From a70ac9f644660a16fa871a9f6933c1344ffae083 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 08:52:50 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Check length returned by sysctl
> To: [email-masked]
>
> sysctl sometimes returns successfully even when it returns no data,
> such as when querying non-existent processes, which can cause crashes.

I thinks that's not a sometimes, but how it is documented to work.

Andreas.

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