On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 01:31:59PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: > > I just noticed an apparent randomness to the reported size of these files. > > what does this mean ? Nothing, you can't trust the length of sysfs files, as they are not set. Only exception is some binary sysfs files, those values should be correct. Is there a reason you are concerned? Does reading from these files not work properly for you? thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/