Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Sat, 7 Jul 2012 23:19:52 +0200 | Subject | Re: Regression - /proc/kmsg does not (always) block for 1-byte reads |
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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > Kay, this needs to be fixed. > > Suggested fix: just use the 'seq_printf()' interfaces, which do the > proper buffering, and allow any size reads of various packetized data.
I'll have a look.
> Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it > was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system > calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does > idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering > that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?
Maybe the bs=1 in the dd call stands for bullshit. :)
Kay
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