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// Copyright 2018 The Prometheus Authors
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// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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//
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//
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// +build linux,!appengine
package util
import (
"bytes"
"os"
"syscall"
)
// SysReadFile is a simplified ioutil.ReadFile that invokes syscall.Read directly.
// https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/pull/728/files
//
// Note that this function will not read files larger than 128 bytes.
func SysReadFile(file string) (string, error) {
f, err := os.Open(file)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
defer f.Close()
// On some machines, hwmon drivers are broken and return EAGAIN. This causes
// Go's ioutil.ReadFile implementation to poll forever.
//
// Since we either want to read data or bail immediately, do the simplest
// possible read using syscall directly.
const sysFileBufferSize = 128
b := make([]byte, sysFileBufferSize)
n, err := syscall.Read(int(f.Fd()), b)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
return string(bytes.TrimSpace(b[:n])), nil
}