/proc/$PID/environ and /proc/$PID/cmdline

[Sam Varshavchik]

Dawid Gajownik writes:

> Hi!
> 	Is that normal, that some processes can have strange values in
> /proc/$PID/environ and /proc/$PID/cmdline files? Here's the example:
> 
> [y4kk0 at X ~]$ cat /proc/2089/environ

Individual environment variables and command line parameters are delimited 
by null bytes, not newline characters.

You can't just "cat" them.

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