standards/164793: [libc] write(2) system call violates POSIX standard

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Tue Apr 22 02:30:01 UTC 2014


The following reply was made to PR standards/164793; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: standards/164793: [libc] write(2) system call violates POSIX
 standard
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 21:21:14 -0500

 ----- Forwarded message from Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> -----
 
 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:24:52 +1000 (EST)
 From: Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au>
 To: linimon at freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: standards/164793: [libc] write(2) system call violates POSIX standard
 
 On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 linimon at freebsd.org wrote:
 
 > Old Synopsis: 'write' system call violates POSIX standard
 > New Synopsis: [libc] write(2) system call violates POSIX standard
 
 Should be '[kern]'.
 
 I see I wrote too much in the followup.  The PR is mostly about
 RLIMIT_FSIZE not working, and this also affects ftruncate() and
 truncate(), and is is probably fs-dependent with zfs and fusefs
 possibly not having it, so write(2) is not very descriptive
 either.
 
 > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-standards
 
 This is correct.
 
 Bruce
 
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