2.5.86+: sizes of almost all files in sysfs are 4k?

Alex Riesen (alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM)
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:27:27 +0200

This confuses some applications (i.e., the midnight commander).

Was this intended?
If the size is not simple/possible to calculate, maybe using 0
would be an option for the cases where the size doesn't carry
any information (like in procfs)?

-alex
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