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Bug#1128397: linux-image-6.18.10+deb14-amd64: open(/proc/$pid/maps) is empty after $pid exec()s, unless you read a partial line from the fd before, in which case it has the rest of the line only

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I'll be honest with you, I don't really know.

Locking in the memory map on read() instead of on open() seems at least
as bad if not worse.

For read -> exec -> read, the second read yielding the partial
"b3000 r--p 00000000 00:8a 816985                     /home/nabijaczleweli/uwu/otp/a.out\n"
isn't pretty, but the alternative is that you get your line truncated
for no reason if your buffer falls mid-line,
which does now sound worse than keeping that as-is.

Of course, the seek behaviour seems obviously wrong as well:
  lseek(0, 200, SET) reads empty,
  lseek(0, 220, SET) reads the first line skip 20 characters,
  lseek(0, 201, SET) reads the first line skip 1 character,
  lseek(0, 110, SET) reads the first line skip 10 characters:
  (yes, the hundred digit seems meaningless here? 6.1.0-35-amd64)
  int main() {
  	close(0);
  	open("/proc/self/maps", 0);
  	lseek(0, (long)110, 0);
  	execlp("cat", "cat", (void *)0);
  }
but that seems tangential.

Best,

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Bug#1128397: linux-image-6.18.10+deb14-amd64: open(/proc/$pid/maps) is empty after $pid exec()s, unless you read a partial line from the fd before, in which case it has the rest of the line only Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2026-02-25 20:30 +0100
  Bug#1128397: linux-image-6.18.10+deb14-amd64: open(/proc/$pid/maps) is empty after $pid exec()s, unless you read a partial line from the fd before, in which case it has the rest of the line only наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> - 2026-02-25 23:40 +0100

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