Re: read_proc issue

Cort Dougan (cort@fsmlabs.com)
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:49:07 -0700


Yes, please kill it! seq files are much better and don't give people as
much of a chance to do things the wrong way. Fewer interfaces to /proc
would be vast improvement.

} Oh, for fsck sake...
}
} We already have better mechanism. Let ->proc_read() die, it's an ugly
} kludge, breeding overcomplicated code and buffer overflows.
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