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From: Laurent <laurent@augias.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl>
Subject: Re: read_proc issue
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:18:16 +0100
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> We already have better mechanism.  Let ->proc_read() die, it's an ugly
> kludge, breeding overcomplicated code and buffer overflows.

What better mechanism ??

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Laurent Sinitambirivoutin
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