Why does fuser provided with RHEL6 NOT account for PIDs with more than 5 digits?

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Issue

  • fuser provided with RHEL6, does not account for PIDs with more than 5 digits. The display is wrong when using fuser {file} 2> /dev/null

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • psmisc-22.6-15.el6_0.1.x86_64

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