viewing files under /sys with mc shows extra garbage

[Roland Illig]

Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
>    Hello all,
>    after testing Jindrich Novy's patch for the 'broken extraction/viewing
> fix from tarfs' I tryed viewing some files under /sys (Fedora Core 3). When
> I open /sys/block/loop0/dev (for example) for editing it shows 4 bytes
> (7:0\0x0A), but opening it for viewing it shows 4096 bytes. All extra bytes
> are filled with 0xFF. I was not able to find file with more than 4096 bytes
> to see what happends then. As far as I remember there was similar problem
> with files under /proc, but it seems fixed. I used Fedora's mc-4.6.1-0.10
> with and without the mentioned patch. Is this fixed in CVS?

I wrote a patch that fixes this issue.
=> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2004-October/msg00145.html

Pavel Shirshov blocked it until 4.6.2.
=> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2004-October/msg00226.html

Roland