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Home » U++ Library support » U++ Core » LoadFile("/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/ ...") does not work
Re: LoadFile("/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/ ...") does not work [message #58302 is a reply to message #58301] Wed, 13 April 2022 20:33 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Tom1
Messages: 1212
Registered: March 2007
Senior Contributor
Hi Mirek,

OK, the problem is here:
bool FileStream::Open(const char *name, dword mode, mode_t tmode) {
	Close();
	LLOG("Open " << name);
	int iomode = mode & ~SHAREMASK;
	handle = open(ToSystemCharset(name), iomode == READ ? O_RDONLY :
	                    iomode == CREATE ? O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC :
	                    O_RDWR|O_CREAT,
	              tmode);
	if(handle >= 0) {
		struct stat st[1];
		fstat(handle, st);
		if(!(st->st_mode & S_IFREG) ||  // not a regular file, e.g. folder - bad things would happen
		   (mode & NOWRITESHARE) && flock(handle, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB) < 0) { // lock if not sharing
			close(handle);
			handle = -1;
			return false;
		}
		int64 fsz = st->st_size;

The 'st->st_size' returned from fstat() above is zero for e.g. "/proc/meminfo". This causes the contents of the file not being read at all. (I tested with a fake length of five bytes and received the five first characters of "/proc/meminfo", so this explains the behavior.)

Best regards,

Tom

More edit: It turns out that files in "/proc" or "/sys" are not really files. Not on disk, but not even in memory. Their contents is generated by the kernel on the fly. So, there is no way to tell their size and so fstat() returns zero. Only way to read them is to just read() them in until EOF.

Maybe they could be read up to the buffer (page) size and if the EOF is encountered, the filesize becomes determined...?

[Updated on: Wed, 13 April 2022 20:46]

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