Bug 1393213

Summary:	[RFE] procfs: report valid stat.st_size by stat()
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pavel Raiskup <praiskup>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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Description Pavel Raiskup 2016-11-09 06:13:22 UTC

If possible -> for files where it makes sense.

The issue makes it almost impossible to "archive" such files by tar -- because
the files have zero size;  tar doesn't even try to read the file contents.

This is known issue which is discussed repeatedly GNU tar and GNU cpio mailing
lists.

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2016-11-09 12:23:53 UTC

This needs to be discussed with the upstream kernel developers.  It is unlikely the Fedora kernel maintainers will have the time to fix this.