In article <20121110173504.gc28...@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, David Laight <da...@l8s.co.uk> wrote: >On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:18:41AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> Module Name: src >> Committed By: christos >> Date: Sat Nov 10 16:18:41 UTC 2012 >> >> Modified Files: >> src/bin/cat: cat.1 cat.c >> >> Log Message: >> Add an option to read with a different buffer size, and document the >> buffer size we use. This allows us to cat -B 10000000 /proc/<pid>/maps >> for example which cannot handle seeking. > >Isn't that what dd is for ?
Never thought about it because I read the procfs code and it said that it cannot be used with cat... christos
