Bug#896576: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#896576: Reading from /proc/[pid]/environ returns garbage)

From	Guillaume <guillaume@atto.be>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#896576: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#896576: Reading from /proc/[pid]/environ returns garbage)
Date	2018-04-23 20:10 +0200
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Le 23/04/2018 à 02:27, Debian Bug Tracking System a écrit :
> The kernel only knows where it stored the environment for a process
> when it started.  If the process manipulates its environment after
> that, the kernel doesn't know about it.  This means that the "environ"
> file is not reliable, and this can't be fixed.  Sorry.

Thanks for the clarification, I now understand this isn't a kernel bug.

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Bug#896576: Reading from /proc/[pid]/environ returns garbage Guillaume <guillaume@atto.be> - 2018-04-22 16:40 +0200
  Bug#896576: marked as done (Reading from /proc/[pid]/environ  returns garbage) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-04-23 02:30 +0200
  Bug#896576: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#896576: Reading from /proc/[pid]/environ returns garbage) Guillaume <guillaume@atto.be> - 2018-04-23 20:10 +0200

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