From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9800: Incomplete truncated file buffers from the /proc filesystem Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:54:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83lirwkvj5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877h40vb8h.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4EA4D31B.4050604@cs.ucla.edu> <87zkgcqm16.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320404079 28726 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2011 10:54:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 9800@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 04 11:54:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMHPu-0005rW-EP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:54:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMHPu-0000Je-31 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMHPq-0000JL-GR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:54:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMHPp-0002Ge-4a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMHPp-0002GI-2w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMHSI-0006Gc-75 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:57:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:57:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9800 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9800-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9800.132040421724080 (code B ref 9800); Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9800) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Nov 2011 10:56:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMHSD-0006GK-Ft for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMHSA-0006G8-0M for 9800@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LU400800U600100@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 9800@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:54:18 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.70.69]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LU4007I3UAHQ5C0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:54:18 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87zkgcqm16.fsf@mail.jurta.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:57:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:53509 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:36:01 +0200 > Cc: Paul Eggert , 9800@debbugs.gnu.org > > >> It strikes me that regular files can go as you read them, too, > >> and that Emacs is not doing this properly. That is, Emacs should > >> be fixed so that it continues to read from a growing regular file > >> until a proper EOF is reached (i.e., until read returns 0). > > > > Sounds like a good idea, but remember to bail out some time before > > reading the infinitely big files to the very end. :-) > > Maybe limit the reading by the value of `large-file-warning-threshold'. IMO, that value is ridiculously low for such use. Maybe multiply it by some large factor.