Re: "less" doesn't work on /proc files
>> You could argue that this is a bug in the semantics of the proc
>> filesystem.
>You could also arguet that this is a bug in less. The size that stat
>gives is old information. less shouldn't trust it.
If you really like to argue, you could also call it a design flaw in
stat(). After all, any time it gives information, it's old by the
time the program can act on it. See Heisenberg for details on that
one.
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