Re: [patch 1/4] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/childrenentry v8

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Tue Jan 24 2012 - 02:21:26 EST


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:07:09PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> >
> > Hmm. But userspace app will get eof, so frankly I don't see
> > a problem here. Or maybe I miss something?
> >
>
> Userspace need to take care of whether there may be"\n" or not even
> if read() returns EOF.
> As an interface, it's BUG to say "\n" will be there if you're lucky!"
> (*) I know script language can handle this but we shouldn't assume that.
>
> How about just remove "\n" at EOF ? I think it's unnecessary.
>

Sure thing, it's not a problem to remove it completely.

Cyrill
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