diff --git a/scripts/find-runtime-roots.pl.in b/scripts/find-runtime-roots.pl.in
index 2e04a635e8..e1a2dde556 100755
--- a/scripts/find-runtime-roots.pl.in
+++ b/scripts/find-runtime-roots.pl.in
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ sub readProc {
 
         my $process = "/proc/$name";
 
+        #print STDERR "=== $process\n";
+
         my $target;
         print "$target\n" if $target = readlink "$process/exe";
         print "$target\n" if $target = readlink "$process/cwd";
@@ -36,17 +38,11 @@ sub readProc {
         }
 
         # Get all store paths that appear in the environment of this process.
-        my $re = "\Q$Nix::Config::storeDir\E\/[0-9a-z]+[0-9a-zA-Z\+\-\._\?=]*";
         eval {
             my $env = Nix::Utils::readFile "$process/environ";
-            my @matches = $env =~ /$re/g;
+            my @matches = $env =~ /\Q$Nix::Config::storeDir\E\/[0-9a-z]+[0-9a-zA-Z\+\-\._\?=]*/g;
             print "$_\n" foreach @matches;
-        };
-        eval {
-            my $cmdline = Nix::Utils::readFile "$process/cmdline";
-            my @matches = $cmdline =~ /$re/g;
-            print "$_\n" foreach @matches;
-        };
+        }
     }
 
     closedir DIR;