Re: /proc/net/* read drops data

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 19:35:04 EST


In article <Pine.GSO.4.33.0308271935550.7750-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:58:17 -0400 (EDT)), Ricky Beam <jfbeam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Ricky Beam wrote:
> >This smells like a simple "off by one" bug, but I've been too busy to go
> >look at the code.
>
> Ah hah! it's a block size problem... netstat reads 1024 at a time.
>
> Using dd...
>
> [root:pts/5{9}]gir:~/[7:55pm]:dd if=/proc/net/udp bs=1024 | wc
> 2+1 records in
> 2+1 records out
> 18 216 2304

Good idea. I'll chase this bug.

--yoshfuji
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