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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:36:51 -0600
From: Taral <taral@taral.net>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/net/ip_conntrack problems
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:27:52PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> Some /proc output is blocked, it will only return complete lines.  If
> your buffer is not big enough to hold the next line then you don't get
> anything at all.  Try cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc.

So why are 2 lines missing when I change the blocking factor from 256 to
512? Even cat reads in 16k blocks... Also:

% dd if=3D/proc/net/ip_conntrack bs=3D512 | perl -ne 'print length()."\n"'
0+2 records in
0+2 records out
153
138
169
151
167
139

No line is longer than 256 chars, so why are 2 lines missing when I read
in 256 byte blocks?

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