It might also be a good idea to advertise a file length > 0, so that
utilities which actually check the length of a file before reading it (=
like
"less") work on /proc. Why not set the "length" of every file in /proc =
to
4096? You can't actually read that much, of course, but any program tha=
t
can't deal with files which suddenly get shorter is broken anyway. Back=
up
utilities excluded, of course, but you don't backup /proc anyway. ;-)
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