Bug 148958

Summary:	/proc/<pid>/environ for most processes only contains garbage
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Dirk Mueller 2006-02-08 00:57:47 UTC

It seems the environ files contain for most KDE processes only random garbage.

Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2006-02-08 03:49:29 UTC

well, perhaps thats userspace triggered. kdeinit tries some ugly tricks to rename itself.

Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2006-02-09 22:45:09 UTC

what do they contain?  What should they contain?

Do other kernel versions work properly?

Comment 3 Dirk Mueller 2006-02-14 09:09:23 UTC

they contain binary garbage (mostly binary NULs it seems). It should contain the environment. 

I haven't tested other kernels yet.

Comment 4 Lars Marowsky-Bree 2006-02-21 11:12:08 UTC

So, as per comment #1, is it user-space triggered? What ugly tricks does it do?

So far, I'm inclined to suggest that kdeinit corrupts the environment all by itself and close the bug as RESOLVED INVALID. ;-)

Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2006-02-27 08:32:22 UTC

well, it doesn't do anything special other than changing its own process name after the fork()/dlopen(). oh well, there are more important bugs to solve.