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authorGiampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com>2023-04-17 02:51:06 +0200
committerGiampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com>2023-04-17 02:51:06 +0200
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Fix #2239 / proc name(): don't fail with ZombieProcess on cmdline()
A recent failure observed on OpenBSD led me to an interesting consideration. ``` ====================================================================== ERROR: psutil.tests.test_process.TestProcess.test_long_name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/vagrant/psutil/psutil/_psbsd.py", line 566, in wrapper return fun(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/vagrant/psutil/psutil/_psbsd.py", line 684, in cmdline return cext.proc_cmdline(self.pid) ProcessLookupError: [Errno 3] No such process During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/vagrant/psutil/psutil/tests/test_process.py", line 751, in test_long_name self.assertEqual(p.name(), os.path.basename(testfn)) File "/vagrant/psutil/psutil/__init__.py", line 628, in name cmdline = self.cmdline() File "/vagrant/psutil/psutil/__init__.py", line 681, in cmdline return self._proc.cmdline() File "/vagrant/psutil/psutil/_psbsd.py", line 569, in wrapper raise ZombieProcess(self.pid, self._name, self._ppid) psutil.ZombieProcess: PID still exists but it's a zombie (pid=48379) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ``` The exception above occurs sporadically. It originates from `sysctl (KERN_PROC_ARGV)`: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/0a81fa089fd4b25b4b7ee71ed39213b83f73c052/psutil/arch/openbsd/proc.c#L149 The error per se does not represent a bug in the OpenBSD `cmdline ()` implemention because the process **really** is a zombie at that point (I'm not sure why it's a zombie - this seems only to occur only on OpenBSD for this specific test case - but that's not the point). The interesting thing is that the test calls process `name()` (which succeeds, despite it's a zombie process), but since the process name is too long it gets truncated to 15 chars (this is a UNIX thing) so psutil tries to guess the remaining characters from the process `cmdline()`, which fails: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/0a81fa089fd4b25b4b7ee71ed39213b83f73c052/psutil/__init__.py#L623-L630 The problem to fix here is that, if `name()` succeeds but `cmdline()` fails, we should not raise `ZombieProcess`: we should simply return the (truncated) process `name()` instead, because that is better than nothing. Not on OpenBSD but on all platforms. Signed-off-by: Giampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com>
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(e.g. directory no longer exists), in which case we returned either ``None``
or an empty string. This was consolidated and we now return ``""`` on all
platforms.
+- 2239_, [UNIX]: if process is a zombie, and we can only determine part of the
+ its truncated `Process.name()`_ (15 chars), don't fail with `ZombieProcess`_
+ when we try to guess the full name from the `Process.cmdline()`_. Just
+ return the truncated name.
**Bug fixes**