file.read() doesn't read the whole file

[Sreejith K]

On Mar 24, 4:45 pm, "R. David Murray" <rdmur... at bitdance.com> wrote:
> Sreejith K <sreejith... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 24, 2:12 pm, Ant <ant... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mar 24, 7:59 am, Sreejith K <sreejith... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ...
>
> > > > data is the whole file, but 'less' gives only the two lines...
>
> > > From this statement (that you are using less), it appears that you are
> > > redirecting sys.stdout to a file or similar - if that is the case, you
> > > may need to flush or close the output file before it picks up any
> > > changes.
>
> It's not a redirect to a file.  Fuse calls the 'read' function on the
> class, the read function does a 'return' of the data, and fuse passes
> the data up through the OS layer to be the result of the 'read' call
> made by less.
>
> If you don't know what a fuse file system is, this all gets very confusing :)
>
> > Yes, I did try a flush() and close on the file which is read, but the
> > result is the same. I think when a read comes in fuse redirecting the
> > actual path (original file) to some other file for reading causes some
> > issues like this. It would be really helpful if someone help me clear
> > this issue. The getattr() calls are actually called upon the original
> > file (doing an os.lstat()). Does this make any effect on the 'less'
> > output ?
>
> I'm afraid we are getting beyond my level of fuse-foo here.  You'd
> probably be better off finding a fuse or even fuse-python mailing list
> and trying there.
>
> If it were me, I'd start logging everything I could (take a look at
> Python's 'logging' module to help you make that easy), and twidling
> things.  What happens if you change what gets returned to lstat?
> What happens for various sizes and contents of the '0' file?  What
> happens if you use 'cat -v' or hexdump instead of less to read the file?
> Run experiments until you gather enough clues to make a guess as to what
> is going on, then test your theory.  Repeat until success :)
>
> --
> R. David Murray          http://www.bitdance.com

Thanks Murray, for your valuable opinions and suggestions. I'll try to
log everything from now on and find out what happens inside. :)
Surely I'll let you guys know what happened..