Prstat displays PROCESS/NLWP  with /0 , but high USR and SYS  cpu usage

I'm running prstat on Sol 10u4 sparc and see from time to time one of more processes with high user and kernel cpu usage, The process name is just displayed as " /0". What is this ?
see sample snapshot below:
PID USERNAME USR SYS TRP TFL DFL LCK SLP LAT VCX ICX SCL SIG PROCESS/NLWP
18738 root 18 42 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 36 0.5 123 247 15K 0 sort/1
18728 root 10 30 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 59 0 361 16K 0 /0
18737 root 6.8 15 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 75 0.2 82 82 5K 0 awk/1
18731 root 5.2 12 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 80 1.5 68 0 5K 0 /0
18730 root 4.8 10 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 82 1.4 58 58 4K 0 /0
18736 root 4.4 10 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 84 0.1 63 0 4K 0 grep/1
18732 root 3.0 11 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 84 0 45 3K 0 head/1
18735 root 4.3 9.2 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 85 0.1 57 57 3K 0 grep/1
18729 root 4.3 8.7 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 84 1.3 103 51 3K 0 /0
18734 root 3.7 8.9 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 86 0.5 52 52 3K 0 grep/1

The slash number format is used to show the number of threads (light weight processes or LWP in Solaris parlance) in a given process (see the header says "PROCESS/NLWP"). I'd guess this is a race condition where prstat finds a process exists and has consumed some CPU, but when it goes to query the data on the process it's already exited so there's no process name and zero threads associated with it. For this to be true and to see this except more than every once in a blue-moon you'd have to have a system that was having processes forked at an amazing rate.
I'd also say this is a bug, but one that you might have a hard time getting an traction on.

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