NetBSD / cmdline: retry on EBUSY (fix #2250)

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NetBSD / cmdline: retry on EBUSY (fix #2250) #2421

Closed giampaolo closed 4 weeks ago

giampaolo commented 1 month ago

Summary

OS: NetBSD
Bug fix: yes
Type: core
Fixes: #2250

Description

Process.cmdline() sometimes fail with EBUSY. It usually happens for long cmdlines with lots of arguments. In this case retry getting the cmdline for up to 50 times, and return an empty list as last resort.