Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Mar 1999 03:04:02 -0800 (PST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | RE: [patch] bugfix for fs/proc/array.c FIXME tasklist_lock |
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > The records are there because the data has a record nature. One line per > mapping, a fixed number of fields per line. What read() does in returning the > data to the user is irrelevent - the data is inherently record-oriented. There are many regular files in /proc. Many of them contain data that can be treated as "record oriented". But they are not, because it was easy enough to implement them as proper regular files (i.e. a stream of bytes, NO records). For /proc/<pid>/maps it is not easy to do that. And now you tell me that it is "intentional"? No, its just an excuse, although a valid and good one. Good, but not perfect. Yet Linux is.
Regards, Tigran.
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