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

To: dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx (David Stevens)
Subject: Re: Wrong UIDs reported in /proc/net/tcp
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:26:10 +1100
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David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Might be more intuitive semantics if the first read resulted in a complete
> copy of the data at that point, fed back to the application in whatever
> chunks it wants, but only if the buffering didn't eat lots of memory.

There is no point in fixing this.  We already have a working replacement
called tcp_diag.

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