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Re: [Help-smalltalk] [Possible bug] #upToEnd etc on certain files
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Bonzini |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] [Possible bug] #upToEnd etc on certain files |
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Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:38:35 +0200 |
> > (FileStream popen: 'cat /proc/rd/status' dir: FileStream read)
upToEnd
This could be better (pipes sometimes have a race condition in 2.0.x between
SIGIO and SIGCHLD):
FileStream fopen: '/proc/rd/status#nop' mode: FileStream read
This uses the virtual file system `nop' which `cat's to a temporary file (it
is there as a debugging tool mostly, but it looks like it can be useful...).
> Thanks! I take it you've identified the problem.
Yes, it is caused by the fake 0 bytes file size of /proc files in Linux.
Paolo