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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:27:27 +0200
From: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.5.86+: sizes of almost all files in sysfs are 4k?
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This confuses some applications (i.e., the midnight commander).

Was this intended?
If the size is not simple/possible to calculate, maybe using 0
would be an option for the cases where the size doesn't carry
any information (like in procfs)?

-alex