Files.read/readAllBytes can loop once with zero size buffer

[Alan Bateman]

On 29/07/2016 19:36, Martin Buchholz wrote:

> I think keeping the status quo is the right outcome.  The /proc filesystem
> is intentionally providing incorrect information because providing correct
> information is deemed to be too expensive (have to compute contents of file
> for stat?).  Reading /proc is sufficiently expensive that the extra realloc
> of an empty buffer is noise.  Be thankful that reading files in /proc works
> at all!
>
>
and just to add that we have a file specifically for /proc as it used to 
cause problems in early versions.

-Alan