On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:20:38AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > Reads should be totally unaffected...
The server was misbehaving. Fixed. :-) > > Btw.: I'm not sure write(),writev() and pwrite() are allowed to do short > > writes on regular files... ? > > Our manpage is incorrect; POSIX states that they are (see earlier > e-mail). There really is no alternative -- we simply can't build > an NFS transaction larger than our buffer cache can accomodate. > Note that short wries won't happen for normal buffer sizes, only > excessively large ones. I really don't believe that writev() is meant > to be used so that you can write gigantic data structures in a single > transaction... Ah, I was reading the SUSv2 page: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/write.html instead of the POSIX version. But in neither of those I can extrude the fact that it can return with result < nbyte, without it being a permanent condition. What phrase makes you conclude that it can ? Marc
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