On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 05:55:41AM -0700, jan.kolar wrote: > > >The content /proc/<pid>/cmdline is created by the proces <pid> itself, in a >separate thread. >Since you use memory intensive application (xterm -sl 20000) we can >speculate >it might be caused by memory corruption in xterm. > >Observe whether the processes with corrupted /proc/<pid>/cmdline behave >properly >and try avoiding '-sl 20000' as a work-arround. > >Unless there is another application with the same problem, this is not a >topic for this list, I think.
If /proc/<pid>/cmdline is shown to be corrupted it certainly is a topic for this list. As always a simple test case would allow us to debug the problem. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple