2011/7/12 Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, how to I can read in safe mode, from bash, the content > of /proc/locks? > > On my system I have more than 7000/9000 line into /proc/locks and if I > read it with awk (or cat or grep or cp) the file change during the read > and my input is undefined and is not processable (see attach). Interesting, because afaiu, in recent kernels reading /proc/locks line-wise should not yield broken records, as the code in fs/locks.c uses the seq_file abstraction. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5713451/is-it-safe-to-parse-a-proc-file/5880485#5880485. What is the kernel version you are seeing that on? - Thomas -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel