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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:27:42 -0800
From: Earl Chew <echew@ixiacom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support single byte reads from integers published in
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On 24/01/2012 2:50 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

Also related to procfs, I posted the following fix for pread() and seq_file but
haven't received any feedback.

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/22/61

Would you take a look ?

Earl