From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9800: Incomplete truncated file buffers from the /proc filesystem Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:36:01 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zkgcqm16.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <877h40vb8h.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4EA4D31B.4050604@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320400786 5979 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2011 09:59:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , 9800@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 04 10:59:41 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 1RMGYk-0008QU-Gv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:59:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54603 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMGYh-0006it-4i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56171) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMGYe-0006iS-1Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMGYc-0001G9-40 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:59:31 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMGYb-0001FU-G7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMGb4-0004wq-Cs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:02:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:02:02 +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=B9800.132040092119012 (code B ref 9800); Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:02:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9800) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Nov 2011 10:02:01 +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 1RMGb2-0004wW-De for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMGaz-0004wK-Sg for 9800@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29D26E808B; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 02:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83AC451C59E; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 02:59:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:32:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:02:02 -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:53505 Archived-At: >> 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'.