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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: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:59:42 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Large files from the /proc filesystem are visited incompletely,
their file buffers are truncated at the position 65536.
One possible test case to reproduce this is to load enough libraries
with e.g. (imagemagick-register-types) and visit Emacs's maps file
in /proc/$PID/maps.

Andreas said in 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-10/msg00782.html
that it's due to this code in `insert-file-contents':

          /* The file size returned from stat may be zero, but data
             may be readable nonetheless, for example when this is a
             file in the /proc filesystem.  */
          if (end_offset == 0)
            end_offset = READ_BUF_SIZE;

How this could be fixed?  Should it keep reading while more data can be
read from the file?




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