pidof can't read sid from /proc/<pid>/stat

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • pidof sometimes reports either of the following error messages unexpectedly because coding of killall5.c is insufficient.
"can't get program name from /proc/<pid>/stat"
"can't read sid from /proc/<pid>/stat"
  • The pidof command returned can't read sid from /proc/<pid>/stat
  • Why does this message appear?
Oct 10 19:15:01 hostname pidof[6623]: can't read sid from /proc/6591/stat

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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