GNU bug report logs - #75569
30.0.93; Large /proc/* file are read incompletely

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, juri <at> linkov.net, mail <at> daniel-mendler.de
Cc: 75569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75569: 30.0.93; Large /proc/* file are read incompletely
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:35:34 -0800

On 2025-01-18 02:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> In other words, when reading a file Emacs should treat st_size as merely
>> a heuristic, not as authoritative.
> But does it do that now?  Regular files whose size changes as we read
> them are pretty rare, so maybe we almost never bump into them.

No, it doesn't do it now, and that's the main bug here. Fix that, and 
this other stuff isn't needed (and likely gets simplified away).

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