Comment 0 for bug 1242746

The changes made in the following commit, which backported a number of changes to the procps package in precise, result in various procps utilities crashing with a SIGSEGV if the file2str function in proc/readproc.c reads zero bytes.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/procps/precise-updates/revision/61

This corresponds to the following procps package version: 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.1

Prior to this changeset, file2str would return -1 if the read failed; now it does not, which is not expected by other parts of the procps codebase, hence the crash.

Upstream have fixed this issue in the following commit:

https://www.gitorious.org/procps/procps/commit/526bc5dfa924177e68be0123bd67e3370955f924