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Re: Wrong UIDs reported in /proc/net/tcp

To: David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Wrong UIDs reported in /proc/net/tcp
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:40:58 +1100
Cc: "Chad N. Tindel" <chad@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:16:33PM -0800, David Stevens wrote:
> 
> Assuming so, another solution would be to stat/fstat the file, add some to 
> it to account
> for growth, allocate a buffer that big and read the whole thing in one 
> shot. Then the
> results should be self-consistent.

You can read at most one page at a time for a /proc file.
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