Threads counted as processes

[skogan]

The following is a patch of a problem where Zabbix agent counts threads as processes on systems running kernel 2.4 (RedHat EL3, for example). This happens because on these systems threads appear as directories under /proc (just like processes) the only difference being a leading "."

1.4.2.orig/src/libs/zbxsysinfo/linux/proc.c  2007-08-20 19:22:23.000000000 +0000
+++ zabbix-1.4.2/src/libs/zbxsysinfo/linux/proc.c       2007-11-22 20:50:14.000000000 +0000
@@ -151,6 +151,12 @@
                        continue;
                }

+               /* Ignore threads -- by Stanislav Kogan, TELUS */
+               if(entries->d_name[0]=='.')
+               {
+                       continue;
+               }
+
                if(stat(filename,&buf)==0)
                {
                        if(NULL == ( f = fopen(filename,"r") ))
@@ -431,6 +437,12 @@
                {
                        continue;
                }
+
+               /* Ignore threads -- by Stanislav Kogan, TELUS */
+               if(entries->d_name[0]=='.')
+               {
+                       continue;
+               }

                strscpy(filename,"/proc/");
                zbx_strlcat(filename,entries->d_name,MAX_STRING_LEN);

[skogan]

This bug is still there in 1.6! I guess for some people it's hard to imagine that anybody uses any other flavor of Linux besides Ubuntu