Previously Christoph Pfisterer wrote: > Below is a patch that fixes this with a wrapper for read() that > handles partial reads and interrupted system calls.
Patch looks good, merged in CVS. > I guess the reason why this has gone unnoticed for so long is that > the pipe implementation in Linux tries to avoid partial reads unless > it hits end-of-file. I've gotten a few bugreports about files not being installed that might be explained by this actually. I've never been able to reproduce that so I can't be sure though. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
