The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> To: Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> Cc: Petr Salinger <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs and procfs. Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:41:03 +0000 In message <[email protected]>, Jaakko Heinonen writes: >On 2011-12-10, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >One problem is the different malloc() semantics. The kernel version uses >M_WAITOK allocations while user space malloc(3) can fail. Yes, that's Dag-Erlings and my point: The semantics are too different. >Only 21 of 133 calls I grepped through the FreeBSD source tree did check >the return value [of sbuf_finish()] How many of them checked sbuf_error() instead ? And seriously: how long would it take to fix 112 calls ? -- 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]"
