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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:18:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Laurent <laurent@augias.org>
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Subject: Re: read_proc issue
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Laurent wrote:

> > We already have better mechanism.  Let ->proc_read() die, it's an ugly
> > kludge, breeding overcomplicated code and buffer overflows.
> 
> What better mechanism ??

seq_file.c and seq_file.h.  Grep around for stuff using it.

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