fuser command complains about non-existent file descriptors

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Command fuser sometimes reports erros as follows:

[root@server~]# while true
> do
> fuser /path/to/some/file
> done
Cannot stat file /proc/27635/fd/52: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
  • psmisc-22.6-15.el6_0.1.x86_64

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