Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: size of files in /proc | Date | 19 May 1998 22:29:47 GMT |
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Followup to: <6jsu4j$1g4$1@post.lunix.org> By author: thospel@mail.dma.be (Ton Hospel) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > But even then I'd like /proc to report the unknown sizes as 1, not 0. > Because I like to be able to export /proc over NFS, and NFS doesn't even > bother to read the file if the size is 0. >
Forget it. I hear this idea every now and then, and it is almost always the Wrong Thing[TM] to do. Especially given the wacko characteristics of NFS -- you're basically horked if it isn't something that is truly like a file.
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