On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 07:43:29PM +0100, Yann Droneaud wrote:

> The write() syscall must return the size buffer passed to it, or
> less, but in such case it would ask for trouble as userspace would
> be allowed to write() the remaining bytes.  Returning a size bigger
> than the one passed to write() is not acceptable and would break any
> expectation.

By that logic the 0 return is still wrong, and it should be ucore->in_len

But I think we can return less without risking anything breaking, it
already violates the invariant associated with write() - it mutates
the buffer passed in!

Jason
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