Hello, BTW: I think accessing named pipes/fifos would have the same "problem". But I guess nobody would use readAllBytes() on them :)
Gruss Bernd Am Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:46:03 +0100 schrieb Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>: > On 29/07/2016 19:36, Martin Buchholz wrote: > > > I think keeping the status quo is the right outcome. The /proc > > filesystem is intentionally providing incorrect information because > > providing correct information is deemed to be too expensive (have > > to compute contents of file for stat?). Reading /proc is > > sufficiently expensive that the extra realloc of an empty buffer is > > noise. Be thankful that reading files in /proc works at all! > > > > > and just to add that we have a file specifically for /proc as it used > to cause problems in early versions. > > -Alan
