From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] size on /proc files?
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:36:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303301036.h2UAaEFZ031353@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Just out of curiousity, what does ls -l on special files in /proc report?
On linux, e.g., /proc/filesystems shows up as a regular file, but of size
zero. Yet when you cat it you get information.
This behavior broke the current gawk, where I'd rewritten the get_a_record
routines; they had a check:
if (S_ISREG(sbuf.st_mode) && total > sbuf.st_size)
flag |= AT_EOF;
I had to change this to
if (S_ISREG(sbuf.st_mode) && sbuf.st_size > 0
&& total > sbuf.st_size) ....
I am annoyed at the Linux behavior, but understand that the contents
of these "files" can change dynamically, making the reporting of a size
for stat difficult or impossible.
So, I was just curious how Plan 9 handles it.
Thanks,
Arnold Robbins
next reply other threads:[~2003-03-30 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-30 10:36 Aharon Robbins [this message]
2003-03-30 12:34 ` David Presotto
2003-03-30 12:48 ` David Presotto
2003-03-30 14:48 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-31 9:08 ` Aharon Robbins
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