The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <[email protected]> To: Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <[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: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:13:56 +0100 Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > > What if the sbuf is in a state where asking for its length is > > meaningless? > Could you give an example about such state? Isn't the length first > initialized to zero and then increased only when byte(s) has been > successfully appended to the buffer? sbuf_len() has worked for > unfinished buffers since r71724. A fixed-length sbuf may overflow intentionally (as in pseudofs) or unintentionally; a dynamic sbuf may also overflow due to a memory allocation failure. The first two cases are expected, but the third is not, and I am not sure the sbuf should be considered valid in such a case. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
