Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:58:31 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [CFT][PATCH] large /proc/mounts and friends |
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:01:17PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
But you're probably right that it doesn't really matter, and as we really have "pipe" semantics we might as well dis-allow any lseek except to the beginning (I know that there have been apps out there that avoid re-opening /proc files by lseek'ing to zero and re-reading - they may not be common enough to matter, though).
I always wondered why for a number of /proc entries that aren't really files why we don't simply expose them as pipes as opposed to zero-length files? Surely that will confuse fewer user-land programs as well and feeling more technically correct?
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