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(12/19/11 3:53 PM), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
>> Usually, /sys files don't output trailing '¥0'. And, '¥0' is not regular
>> io friendly. So I can imagine some careless programmer think it is garbage. Is
>> there any benefit to show trailing '¥0'?
>>
>
> Nope, it could be removed since the buffer is allocated with
> get_zeroed_page().

ok, thanks.