Re: Long process list

On 2007-07-03 17:05:22 +0100, Darren Dunham <ddunham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-07-03 00:17:58 +0100, gerryt <lepsysinc@xxxxxxxxx> said:

# pargs -l 1076
pargs: target has corrupted argument list
Both systems as root or otherwise.
a truss of the process seems ok at first glance.

Check out line 1181 (etc) of
<http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/ptools/pargs/pargs.c>
to

see why this text is appearing.

OpenGrok problems? I get 404 on all files at the moment....

It worked just now... But I'm sure you've got your mercurial repository handy anyway ;-)

I think the process is just scribbling junk to its argv array, which it
is quite at liberty to do AIUI.

"a" process is at liberty to do that, yes. But I don't think it's
common, certainly not for most OS processes. He's apparently getting
this on *all* processes he checks. That suggests to me something is
happening at a system level.

Maybe. But there's some messing with locales and stuff in the pargs code, so the problem could be in Gerry's environment.

Cheers,

Chris

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