2010/11/29 Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]>: > 2010/11/29 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>: >> >> Your patch arbitrarily shortens the read to the first vector. While >> short reads for regular files are fine with Posix, it will break a lot >> of userspace applications. >> > > cifs_user_read returns the number of bytes we read from the server and > it, of course, can be different with requested number. Could you > explain carefully what do you mean, please? Where is a problem here? >
It seems to me that I understand what you meant. Of course, it is a bug to process only one segment while nr_segs can be more than one here. Thanks! -- Best regards, Pavel Shilovsky. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
