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Subject: Re: 2.5.40 (BK of today) vmstat SIGSEGV after reading /proc/stat
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.prima.de>
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On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:12, Patrick Mau wrote:

> The BK tree of today changed the data returned in /proc/stat.
> A 'vmstat -n 10' immediatly segfaults after reading ...
> 
> open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY)            = 6
> read(6, "cpu  404408 506514 8240 154301 1"..., 4095) = 714
> close(6)                                = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

The format changed, on purpose.  You need vmstat from a newer version of
procps.  The newest version (2.0.9) and CVS dumps as-of yesterday are
available at:

	http://tech9.net/rml/procps

as both tarballs and RPM packages.

	Robert Love

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