Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:50:37 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Support single byte reads from integers published in procfs by kernel/sysctl.c |
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:47:51 -0800 Earl Chew <echew@ixiacom.com> wrote:
> > Rereading different bytes of the integer multiple times when the integer > > may be changing does not seem like a reasonable implementation. > > Yes. I agree with you. I shall re-work the patch as per your suggestion.
Yes, this is a bug and procfs should support byte-at-a-time reading of these strings. And yes, they are strings! Of digits.
We fixed an instance of this in procfs a while ago (maybe a year ago?). But I forget where it was. It is surprising that a bug of this nature survived so long.
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