Re: [patch 1/6] procfs: Introduce sequential fdinfo engine

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At moment the fdinfo operations (ie the output from /proc/$pid/fdinfo/$fd)
> are generating output in one pass, which makes useless memory pressue
> if the reader/user provides a buffer with a small size.

cat(1) uses 64 KB buffer.
The output doesn't exceed one page anyway.
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