On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 00:07:48 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On 23.07.2012 22:47, Jesper Juhl wrote: > >>Fix it _how_? > > > >By returning the size as the number of bytes in the name the link is > >currently pointing at. > > This is not easy. > procfs has no clue where the link pointing at. > The information is generated while accessing the link. > tmpfs on the other hand has this information because symlinks get > only changed through tmpfs... Well, can't the link be accessed when getting the stat information then? > >> By retrying readlink() with bigger buffer. > >>With procfs there's just a few more ways the readlink() output can > >>change, that's all. > >> > >Still not a good reason to just return 0 IMHO. > > IMHO the lstat() and readlink() manpages have to be more precise > about st_size. They document what POSIX says: <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html> regards, guillem -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
