Re: read() called twice for /proc files

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:35:55 -0700 (PDT)


From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:29:49 -0700

This results in the actual read taking twice as long. Perhaps I am missing
something...

EOF isn't known until you return the zero. You can watch the loff_t
arg to the read operation to see if it is at the end, and if so just
avoid retouching the device or whatever and go straight to returning
0.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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