kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs
and procfs.
Jaakko Heinonen
jh at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 9 12:40:09 UTC 2011
The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org>
To: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des at des.no>
Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>,
Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger at seznam.cz>, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,
mdf at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs
and procfs.
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:36:17 +0200
On 2011-12-09, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Could we just remove the error check from sbuf_len()? (patch below) I
> > have Cc'd more people.
>
> Why?
As I wrote existing code depends on sbuf_len() to return the actual
length regardless of the error status after sbuf_finish(). I am not
willing to through all code using sbufs to check where it causes
problems. phk@ asserts that r222004 is correct.
--
Jaakko
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