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Fix race condition with unix process listing #23
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When a system is aggressively launching new processes in parallel, it seems the
processes()
method returns an incomplete set of results.I was seeing the issue in goss, here: goss-org/goss#267
I was able to resolve the issue by changing the directory lookup logic from:
To just simply:
I assume the size of
/proc
shouldn't cause concern with the-1
full read.