From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Herbert Rosmanith <kernel@wildsau.enemy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: procfs uglyness caused by "cat"
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:35:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4416D4A3.9070705@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5Qfgo-3At-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
> a simple way to get rid of this:
>
> static int uptime_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
> int count, int *eof, void *data)
> {
> struct timespec uptime;
> struct timespec idle;
> int len;
> cputime_t idletime;
>
> + if (off)
> + return 0;
Except that this is wrong - if you try to advance the offset a bit from
the start of the file and read something, you'll get nothing. This is
inconsistent with normal file behavior.
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2006-03-14 14:35 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-03-14 15:33 ` procfs uglyness caused by "cat" Paul Rolland
2006-03-14 17:59 ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-14 18:45 ` Paul Rolland
2006-03-15 8:06 ` Herbert Rosmanith
2006-03-15 8:23 ` Herbert Rosmanith
2006-03-14 10:43 Herbert Rosmanith
2006-03-14 15:57 ` Paul Jackson
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