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

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> 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.  :-)

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