??? Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tar can archive these /proc "files" just fine,
> but it can't extract them. It gets fooled by its storing a zero file size.

What you describe does not happen if you are using a real procfs.

This is however a well known implementation bug that exists in the Linux 
kernel where /proc only has a remote similarity with procfs.

On Linux, stat() indeed returns st_size == 0 for all files in /proc.

Jörg

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