--- netkit-rusers-0.17/rpc.rstatd/rstat_proc.c.buffer	Thu May 30 16:24:12 2002
+++ netkit-rusers-0.17/rpc.rstatd/rstat_proc.c	Thu May 30 16:59:13 2002
@@ -402,14 +402,26 @@
 {
   static int stat;
 #define	BUFFSIZE	1024
-  char buff[BUFFSIZE];
+  char *buff = NULL;
+  off_t buffsize = 1;
   int ndisks;
   
   if ((stat=open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY, 0)) != -1) {
     char* b;
-    buff[BUFFSIZE-1] = 0;  /* ensure null termination in buffer */
-    read(stat,buff,BUFFSIZE-1);
+    b = buff;
+
+    do {
+      buffsize += BUFFSIZE;
+      buff = realloc(buff, buffsize);
+      if (buff == NULL) {
+	perror("getstat(): realloc");
+	abort();
+      }
+      b = buff + buffsize - BUFFSIZE - 1;
+    } while (read(stat,b,BUFFSIZE) == BUFFSIZE);
     close(stat);
+    buff[buffsize - 1] = '\0';
+    
     *itot = 0; 
     *i1 = 1;   /* ensure assert below will fail if the sscanf bombs */
     b = strstr(buff, "cpu ");
@@ -437,7 +449,10 @@
     b = strstr(buff, "ctxt ");
     if(b)
     sscanf(b, "ctxt %u", ct);
-    assert(*itot>*i1);
+    /* avoid breaking with certain kernels where all the
+       interrupt numbers have 1000000000 added to the value */
+    /*    assert(*itot>*i1); */
+    free(buff);
   }
 }