consistentread.go

/*
Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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*/

package io

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
)

// ConsistentRead repeatedly reads a file until it gets the same content twice.
// This is useful when reading files in /proc that are larger than page size
// and kernel may modify them between individual read() syscalls.
func ConsistentRead(filename string, attempts int) ([]byte, error) {
	oldContent, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	for i := 0; i < attempts; i++ {
		newContent, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		if bytes.Compare(oldContent, newContent) == 0 {
			return newContent, nil
		}
		// Files are different, continue reading
		oldContent = newContent
	}
	return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not get consistent content of %s after %d attempts", filename, attempts)
}