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

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:04:11PM -0500, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> 
> You're saying that since pidentd is calling fgets(), that can actually result
> in multiple read() calls.  Because of this, the first half of the line

fgets() is implemented on top of a buffered read, with my glibc it reads
4096 bytes.  Whatever that size is, the second read is most likely going
to be reading a partial record.  There is no guarantee that the partial
record is going to match the end of the first read.
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