Cd to nonexistent directory in /proc

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 15:03 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Investigating a hanging instance of googleearth (wich process number
> 3110), I noticed that it's possible to 
> 	cd /proc/3110
> while on the other hand
> 	ls /proc
> does not show 3110 as being in the proc directory.
> 
> Any ideas what's going on?

I can't imagine how that could happen, unless the directory entry
disappeared between you doing the cd and the ls, perhaps because the
process terminated. OTOH is you can reproduce this reliably, it could
merit a Bugzilla report.

poc