Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:47:50 +0200 (EET) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: /proc through NFS |
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, David Howells wrote: > I would imagine this is because /proc files in general have zero lengths, and > so anything that stat's them will assume that they don't contain anything. > > I find that less doesn't work on them either.
Indeed. To get /proc to work over NFS you have to give the files their correct length, and that is not done by the normal kernel (because the length calculations are non-trivial).
What you _can_ do to fake it and to generally make it work for most cases is to just create a patched kernel that fakes the lengths to some random value. I've used this once to debug a kernel problem over NFS. Sick, but potentially useful (I made all /proc files be 4096 bytes in length, which happens to be a nice round random number).
Linus
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