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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:29:52 +0200

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

> I guess itʼs a matter of how you describe success:
>
> Me: Kernel, please tell me about process <x>
> Kernel: (process <x> does not exist). Success! Have some zero length
> data.
> Me: <crash>

The crash is because you are accessing the data outside of its bounds.
That has nothing to do with success.

Andreas.

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