>Number:         10133
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ps(1) gets arguments via procfs wrong sometimes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 16 16:04:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jaromir Dolecek
>Release:        NetBSD 1.4Y 2000/05/16
>Organization:
	IBIS, Ltd.
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD saruman.ics.muni.cz 1.4Y NetBSD 1.4Y (SARUMAN) #31: Tue May 16 22:53:56 CEST 2000 dolecek@saruman.ics.muni.cz:/usr/home/dolecek/tmp/syssrc/sys/arch/i386/compile/SARUMAN i386
Architecture: i386

>Description:
	Seems like ps(1) isn't able to extract args for processes on
	end of list, displays just their process title.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	> ps ax
	... some system stuff
  205 ??  ?<s    0:00.67 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
  209 ??  ?<     0:00.06 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
  370 ??  ?<     0:00.04 /usr/pkg/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
	... lots of other stuff with correct args and ...
  216 E1- ?W<s   0:00.00 (getty)
  217 E2- ?W<s   0:00.00 (getty)
  218 E3- ?W<s   0:00.00 (getty)
  219 E4- ?W<s   0:00.00 (getty)
  220 E5- ?W<s   0:00.00 (getty)
  221 E6- ?W<s   0:00.00 (getty)

	whereas output from

	> cat /proc/221/cmdline
	/usr/libexec/gettyPcttyE6

	is apparently ok
>Fix:
	None provided ATM. This is just a reminder so that this problem
	won't be lost.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: