GNU Parallel Bug Reports parallel cannot cope with process with empty name

[Daniel Colascione]

It's possible for a process to have an empty name:

$ ps -ef | perl -ane '1..1 and /^(.*)CO?MM?A?N?D/ and $s=length
$1;s/^.{$s}//; print "@F[1,2] $_"' | grep 900
90029 90023

$ cat /proc/90029/cmdline  |cat -v
address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@

This process entry causes the pid_table function to call die_bug with
the "pidtable format" error. I don't know how, but we do this *in a
loop*, *forever*, until we kill the process. We die on all invocations
of parallel, even parallel --version.

After commenting out the die_bug line, parallel seems to operate normally.

$ parallel --version
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