/proc/<PID> inodes are not always unique
Issue
On RHEL 5 we are observing that certain /proc/<PID> directories have the same inode number. This is breaking a monitoring application which depends on the inode number uniqueness.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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