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bug#9800: Incomplete truncated file buffers from the /proc filesystem


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#9800: Incomplete truncated file buffers from the /proc filesystem
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:36:01 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> It strikes me that regular files can go as you read them, too,
>> and that Emacs is not doing this properly.  That is, Emacs should
>> be fixed so that it continues to read from a growing regular file
>> until a proper EOF is reached (i.e., until read returns 0).
>
> Sounds like a good idea, but remember to bail out some time before
> reading the infinitely big files to the very end.  :-)

Maybe limit the reading by the value of `large-file-warning-threshold'.





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