GNU bug report logs - #36279
26.2.90; (process-attributes nonexistent-pid) segmentation fault

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xu Chunyang <mail <at> xuchunyang.me>

Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.2.90

Fixed in version 26.3

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 36279 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36279 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mail <at> xuchunyang.me, npostavs <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#36279: 26.2.90;
 (process-attributes nonexistent-pid) segmentation fault
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:29:52 +0200

On Jun 19 2019, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> 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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