bug#71191: od does unnecessary reads instead of seeking

2024-05-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 25/05/2024 08:05, Joseph C. Sible wrote: Consider running the following command, for looking at the pagemap bits of a given memory page: od -t x8 -N 8 -j 34359738368 /proc/PID/pagemap That file supports seeking, but od will unnecessarily read and discard 32GB worth of data instead of doing s

bug#71186: email address for patch

2024-05-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
tab 71186 notabug close 71186 stop On 24/05/2024 19:15, Данила Скачедубов wrote: Hi! I have a few questions. Please tell me, I want to compile the main files so that they are output by the man command. As far as I understand, this is done by the help2man-1.48.5 command. But at the

bug#71191: od does unnecessary reads instead of seeking

2024-05-25 Thread Joseph C. Sible
Consider running the following command, for looking at the pagemap bits of a given memory page: od -t x8 -N 8 -j 34359738368 /proc/PID/pagemap That file supports seeking, but od will unnecessarily read and discard 32GB worth of data instead of doing so. Looking at the skip function in od.c, it l