Re: Wrong UIDs reported in /proc/net/tcp

["Chad N. Tindel" <chad@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > In our testing we've found some occurrences of identd reporting back the
> > wrong username for the owner of a socket.  We added some instrumentation
> 
> /proc/net/tcp is an obsolete interface.  It is inherently unreliable
> in that a record may be read using two read(2) calls.  Those two calls
> may end up looking at two different records.

Is it unreliable in that the wrong user id will get returned for an 
established socket?  How could such a thing happen?

Chad