The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <[email protected]> Cc: Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]>, Petr Salinger <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs and procfs. Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:51:15 +0000 In message <[email protected]>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wr ites: >Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> writes: >> As I wrote existing code depends on sbuf_len() to return the actual >> length regardless of the error status after sbuf_finish(). I am not >> willing to through all code using sbufs to check where it causes >> problems. phk@ asserts that r222004 is correct. > >What if the sbuf is in a state where asking for its length is >meaningless? It will always have a length, but the length may not represent all you tried to stuff into the sbuf, if the sbuf has failed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
