kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs and procfs.

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des at des.no>
To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org>
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, 09 Dec 2011 15:04:22 +0100

 Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org> writes:
 > 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.
 
 What if the sbuf is in a state where asking for its length is
 meaningless?
 
 DES
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 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des at des.no