gatus/vendor/github.com/prometheus/procfs/internal/util/sysreadfile.go

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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
}