On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Guruprasad, Mahendrakar V (IE10) wrote:
> Hi,
> one strange thing I observed. you can't read /proc/meminfo through
> program ( which uses open, read
> kind of stuff to read /proc/meminfo). you even can't determine the
> size of file/proc/meminfo through lseek(fd, 0,2)
> May be because the file is continuously changing.
> Bye
Hi,
Ofcourse the file is changing continuously.
But You can do it. Read everything in a single stretch and parse.
say 512 bytes at a time(that's more than enough for this file)
The program will succeed.
Now try reading 1 byte at a time, the program will certainly fail.
sudheer
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