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

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Dec 9 16:10:15 UTC 2011


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

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des at des.no>,
        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 16:08:12 +0000

 In message <20111209123616.GA32253 at a91-153-116-96.elisa-laajakaista.fi>, Jaakko
  Heinonen writes:
 >On 2011-12-09, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
 
 >As I wrote existing code depends on sbuf_len() to return the actual
 >length regardless of the error status after sbuf_finish().
 
 What do you mean by "actual length" ?
 
 The length it would have if there hadn't been errors ?
 
 I don't object to that.
 
 -- 
 Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
 phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
 FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
 Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.


More information about the freebsd-bugs mailing list