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Re: getline in /proc
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Jürgen Kahrs |
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Re: getline in /proc |
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Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:25:36 +0200 |
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Simon Vaillancourt wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm not sure if this is a gawk(using version 3.1.1) bug or a procfs
> issue but but when doing a getline on a file that doesn't exist in
> /proc, it loops forever, for example :
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> echo test | gawk 'BEGIN { while (getline <
> "/proc/anypid/unexistingfile") {print "line="$0}}'
Yes, this loops forever. And this is your bug.
Read page 62 of "The AWK Programming Language".
- getline in /proc, Simon Vaillancourt, 2005/09/17
- Re: getline in /proc,
Jürgen Kahrs <=