Re: procfs uglyness caused by "cat"

["Paul Rolland" <rol@witbe.net>]

Hello,

> main()
> {
>     char c;
>     int fd = open("/proc/uptime", 0);
>     while (read(fd, &c, 1) == 1) {
>         write(1, &c, 1);
>         sleep(1);
>     }
> }

Yes, much better, same result for 2.2.x and 2.4.31 :
bash-2.05# cat /proc/uptime; ./test2  
112049.81 111665.11
112054.89 111670.29

The result is more "correct", but I guess this makes it worse for
Herbert, as uptime_read_proc() is then called for each character...

Paul