Re: 2.4.20-pre11 /proc/partitions read

[Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz>]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
: 
: 
: On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:
: 
: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:19:57PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
: >
: > > 	I.e. if you read the /proc/partitions in single read() call,
: > > it gets read OK. However, if you read() with smaller-sized blocks,
: > > you get the truncated contents.
: >
: > Having statistics in /proc/partitions leads to such problems.
: > Make sure you do not ask for them.

	Yes I have CONFIG_BLK_STATS (and I need this to know
when my server gets overloaded).
: 
: Its not forced behaviour. Its a config option and its defaulted to off.
: 
: Some people want it.

	Yes.

	Maybe it should be documented that you have to read it
in a single read() syscall with big enough buffer.

-Yenya

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