On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 12:31:25PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:22:00 +0800
> Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM David Gibson
> > <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:46:59PM +0800, Yumei Huang wrote:  
> > > >
> > > > +/**
> > > > + * get_tcp_syn_param() - Read SYN parameters from /proc/sys
> > > > + * @path: Path to the sysctl file
> > > > + * @fallback: Default value if file can't be read
> > > > + *
> > > > + * Return: Parameter value, fallback on failure
> > > > +*/
> > > > +int get_tcp_syn_param(const char *path, int fallback)  
> > >
> > > I wonder if it might be worth making a new function in util.c to read
> > > a file containing a single number.  
> > 
> > I can do that. So it could be reused in the future.
> 
> If it helps: we already have write_file(), so it might be worth adding
> a read_file() symmetric to it. Maybe it's overkill though.

That might be nice.  Since we can't do allocations the right interface
for read_file() is slightly trickier though: we need to have a
preallocated buffer and report possible truncation.

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