cvs commit: src/sys/kern sys_generic.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Jul 3 01:10:13 GMT 2005


In message <20050125110648.GB29791 at nagual.pp.ru>, Andrey Chernov writes:
>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:58:11PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>> What's about "invalid buffer pointers" detection, directly mentioned in 
>> the standard (above)? Now it is broken for zero bytes read because your 
>> newly inserted check takes precedence.
>
>The next precedence violation candidate in error detection will be:
>
>"[EIO] 
>The process is a member of a background process attempting to read from 
>its controlling terminal, the process is ignoring or blocking the SIGTTIN 
>signal, or the process group is orphaned."
>
>I.e. look at ERRORS section list and inspect each errno returning broken 
>by preliminary zero bytes check.

That's another check we didn't do before to the resid==0 handling before.

Now, I'm going to killfile this subject until you come up with code which
real-life code which breaks because of this, OK ?

Bye...

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