Re: [Help-smalltalk] [Possible bug] #upToEnd etc on certain files

[Bonzini]

> >     (FileStream popen: 'cat /proc/rd/status' dir: FileStream read)
upToEnd

This could be better (pipes sometimes have a race condition in 2.0.x between
SIGIO and SIGCHLD):

   FileStream fopen: '/proc/rd/status#nop' mode: FileStream read

This uses the virtual file system `nop' which `cat's to a temporary file (it
is there as a debugging tool mostly, but it looks like it can be useful...).

> Thanks! I take it you've identified the problem.

Yes, it is caused by the fake 0 bytes file size of /proc files in Linux.

Paolo