From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 9800@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9800: Incomplete truncated file buffers from the /proc filesystem
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:02:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA5E08D.8070903@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RISPO-0007Eu-TE@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 10/24/11 14:50, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I think there was a reason for doing it this way. Perhaps so as to
> allocate the space before reading the file.
Yes, that sounds right. And in the typical case where the file is not
growing, that allocates space efficiently. If the file is growing, though,
it's OK to allocate more space after discovering that the initial
allocation was too small.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-19 22:59 bug#9800: Incomplete truncated file buffers from the /proc filesystem Juri Linkov
2011-10-20 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20 8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-02-12 7:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 9:24 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2011-10-24 2:53 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-24 21:50 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-24 22:02 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2023-02-12 10:21 ` Arsen Arsenović via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-13 20:47 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-03 20:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-11-04 9:36 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-04 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-07 0:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-07 19:41 ` Juri Linkov
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