"A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:"
> > In net/atm/proc.c, the file position is abused as an item counter.
> > Works pretty well. (Hardly anybody does calculated seeks, and the
> > more common "rewind" and "return to previously seen position" cases
> > are okay.)
>
> Yuck. Take a look at the routing code for IP stuff. We use fixed width records
> with space padding. Then you just shift right to get the item counter
> and it still works byte level
I have rewritten the generic proc read routine to at least be
comprehensible. (It's the stuff that interfaces the read calls
made at FS level to the functions registered with proc).
I was waiting for notices to come in of uses of some of its (to me obscure
and probably disused) modes before I changed the functionality to get rid
of them. I've been collecting the notices here and will cheerfully post a
suggested patch shortly ... (snowed under here).
Peter
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