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

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:43:37PM -0500, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
>
> > /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?

In 2.4 it is entirely possible to have a record broken up into two
reads.  There is no guarantee that the two reads will be reading the
same record.
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