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From: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:49:07 -0700
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: read_proc issue
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Yes, please kill it!  seq files are much better and don't give people as
much of a chance to do things the wrong way.  Fewer interfaces to /proc
would be vast improvement.

} Oh, for fsck sake...
} 
} We already have better mechanism.  Let ->proc_read() die, it's an ugly
} kludge, breeding overcomplicated code and buffer overflows.
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