Seen on PPC with some older kernel versions: we seemingly have bytes left to read from the returned array of dirent structs, but d_reclen is zero: this, and all the subsequent entries, are not valid. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio(a)redhat.com> --- pasta.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pasta.c b/pasta.c index bcc1261..3928ad0 100644 --- a/pasta.c +++ b/pasta.c @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ loop: struct dirent *dp = (struct dirent *)buf; int pos = 0; - while (pos < n) { + while (dp->d_reclen && pos < n) { pid_t pid; errno = 0; -- 2.33.0