Comment 16 for bug 1242746

I've tested this on Precise by running the attached script.

With the old package version (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.1) this caused top to crash after about 90 minutes.
With the new package version (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.3), it's been running without incident for the last 24 hours.

Note, that as we're dealing with a race between top reading the contents of proc and processes being spawned/destroyed, it's tricky to reproduce in a controlled manner, so I went for the brute-force approach.

Nothing else appears untoward with the new version.