Re: [PATCH] Support single byte reads from integers published inprocfs by kernel/sysctl.c

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:47:51 -0800
Earl Chew <echew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Rereading different bytes of the integer multiple times when the integer
> > may be changing does not seem like a reasonable implementation.
> 
> Yes. I agree with you. I shall re-work the patch as per your suggestion.

Yes, this is a bug and procfs should support byte-at-a-time reading of these
strings.  And yes, they are strings!  Of digits.

We fixed an instance of this in procfs a while ago (maybe a year ago?).
But I forget where it was.  It is surprising that a bug of this nature
survived so long.

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