From dac2d948248567c3c7eaac913152e1f8f0154308 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:14:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Reading the cmdline of a dead process raises an exception
 too. Reported by Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de>

---
 iotop.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/iotop.py b/iotop.py
index 02d45a6..b46dbd8 100755
--- a/iotop.py
+++ b/iotop.py
@@ -301,9 +301,9 @@ class pinfo(object):
         # A process may exec, so we must always reread its cmdline
         try:
             proc_cmdline = open('/proc/%d/cmdline' % self.pid)
+            cmdline = proc_cmdline.read(4096)
         except IOError:
             return '{no such process}'
-        cmdline = proc_cmdline.read(4096)
         parts = cmdline.split('\0')
         if parts[0].startswith('/'):
             first_command_char = parts[0].rfind('/') + 1
-- 
2.11.4.GIT