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> > Btw, is it indended behaviour of sysfs, that after writing to a file, 
> > the size is zero?
> 
> Hm, don't know about that, I haven't seen that before.  If you cat the
> file after writing it, does the file size change?

It's a known problem that I haven't been able to track down. 

The file size is hardwired to PAGE_SIZE when it is created. For some 
reason, it's reset to 0 after it's opened. I haven't had a chance to track 
down why, or how to reset it..


	-pat

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