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Diffstat (limited to 'psutil/_pslinux.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | psutil/_pslinux.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/psutil/_pslinux.py b/psutil/_pslinux.py index 3fe62c5c..a5a3fd89 100644 --- a/psutil/_pslinux.py +++ b/psutil/_pslinux.py @@ -1471,9 +1471,17 @@ class Process(object): if not data: # may happen in case of zombie process return [] - if data.endswith('\x00'): + # 'man proc' states that args are separated by null bytes '\0' + # and last char is supposed to be a null byte. Nevertheless + # some processes may change their cmdline after being started + # (via setproctitle() or similar), they are usually not + # compliant with this rule and use spaces instead. Google + # Chrome process is an example. See: + # https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/1179 + sep = '\x00' if data.endswith('\x00') else ' ' + if data.endswith(sep): data = data[:-1] - return [x for x in data.split('\x00')] + return [x for x in data.split(sep)] @wrap_exceptions def environ(self): |