Richard B. Johnson wrote:
:
: > # dd if=/proc/partitions bs=512|wc -l
: > 1+1 records in
: > 1+1 records out
: > 12
: >
: > # dd if=/proc/partitions bs=128k|wc -l
: > 0+1 records in
: > 0+1 records out
: > 32
:
: Well yes, sorta. The proc file-system is a compromise. You can
: `cat` it and `more` it, but anything that uses `lseek` will
: fail in strange ways.
I hope dd(1) does not use lseek() :-) The question is
whether the application should supply a big enough buffer to read(2)
or whether it is possible to read(2) in more smaller chunks.
-Y.
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