The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: [email protected] To: Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <[email protected]>, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]>, Petr Salinger <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs and procfs. Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:33:46 -0800 2011/12/9 Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]>: > On 2011-12-09, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >> > Could we just remove the error check from sbuf_len()? (patch below) I >> > have Cc'd more people. >> >> Why? > > 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 is causing sbuf to have an error in the first place? The size of flies in /proc are generally small and malloc(3) errors are rare. Thanks, matthew _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
