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Re: getloadavg and proc filesystem




On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:14 AM, anoop aryal wrote:

unless that's changed in 2.6, the file did change on you even when you had it
open in 2.4.  i wrote a program once that did an

open();
while(1) {
read();
seek(0);
sleep(5);
}

to collect data from /proc and it worked just fine.

Hi Anoop,

the thing I am not sure about is the

while () {
    read();
}


What happens if DURING your reads, the kernel updates the proc filesystem...

Andrew




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