Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] DOSEMU image file support

[Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 13:04 +0100, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 19:12 +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > > The reason I used stdio is that read/write are non-blocking. It is
> > > not an error for read to return fewer bytes than requested. If that
> > > happens, the other block drivers fail.
> > 
> > I agree, but for disk accesses it is usual to assume they return the 
> > requested amount of bytes. fread/fwrite are buffered I/Os which is a bit 
> > overkill for block drivers.
> 
> Heh,
> 
> Not if an unmasked signal is received on NFS mounted soft/intr. That is
> because POSIX "allows a read that is interrupted after reading some data
> to return -1 (with errno set to EINTR) or to return the number of bytes
> already read."

Ignore me. I read "disk" as "filesystem".

Either way, POSIX says things are allowed to change - and we should
probably be allowing for images on network filesystems anyway...

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