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For the specified process id `pid`, load the contents of the file `/proc/<pid>/stat` into the specified `buffer`. Return 0 on success and a non‐zero value otherwise.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balb_performancemonitor.h>`

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static
int
readProcStatString(
    xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string]* buffer,
    int pid);
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