cvs commit: src/lib/libc_r/uthread uthread_write.c

[Nate Lawson]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > Does this fix something other than bacula?
> >
> > Anyone else who expected this semantics.  I have no specific examples.
>
> I think it probably only pertinent to writing to tape devices
> where a 0 return means end of tape.  Otherwise you should
> get -1 with an appropriate errno or just wait until all
> the requested data has been written.
>
> I asked if this fixed something because I was asked if this
> was a 5.2R candidate.

Oh, I thought it mattered for people doing non-blocking writes from a
thread also.

-Nate