Re: more fun with procfs (netfilter)

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 19:48:56 EST

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In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111190156140.17210-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> you wri
te:
> Reason: netfilter procfs files try to fit entire records into the user
> buffer. Do a read shorter than record size and you've got zero. And
> read() returning 0 means you-know-what...

Yes. Don't do this.

Hope that helps,
Rusty.

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