On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 09:15 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/29/2011 06:01 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > print "pid: %s" % pid # add this line > > Great idea: > > ./needs-restarting > pid: 1 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./needs-restarting", line 138, in <module> > sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) > File "./needs-restarting", line 118, in main > for fn in get_open_files(pid): > File "./needs-restarting", line 85, in get_open_files > for line in maps.readlines(): > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied > > > > From this we see: > > > $ ls -l /proc/1/smaps > 0 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 28 13:25 /proc/1/smaps > > $ cat /proc/1/smaps > cat: /proc/1/smaps: Permission denied > > So that is the source of the problem - tho it probably should not give up. But the mode bits allow reading, and on my system "cat /proc/1/smaps" succeeds (though it's empty). I don't think those files have extended attributes so that wouldn't be it. Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice said. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines