Re: CVS commit: src/bin/cat

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20121110173504.GC28984%snowdrop.l8s.co.uk@localhost>,
David Laight  <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:18:41AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By:        christos
>> Date:                Sat Nov 10 16:18:41 UTC 2012
>> 
>> Modified Files:
>>      src/bin/cat: cat.1 cat.c
>> 
>> Log Message:
>> Add an option to read with a different buffer size, and document the
>> buffer size we use. This allows us to cat -B 10000000 /proc/<pid>/maps
>> for example which cannot handle seeking.
>
>Isn't that what dd is for ?

Never thought about it because I read the procfs code and it said that it
cannot be used with cat...

christos