From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
"Viro, Al" <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit sendfile() to 2^31-PAGE_CACHE_SIZE bytes without error
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:16:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BC030A.1060208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601040900311.3668@g5.osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, this patch looks ok, if it's confirmed to unbreak apache.
Yes, sounds reasonable. But I don't think that, as Peter suggested in
another mail, that glibc should automatically wrap the syscall to
provide support for larger sizes. The caller probably should know when
a transfer was cut short.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-04 17:19 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <200601040451.20411.ak@suse.de>
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2006-01-04 5:33 ` [PATCH] Limit sendfile() to 2^31-PAGE_CACHE_SIZE bytes without error H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-04 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-04 17:16 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2006-01-04 18:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-04 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-04 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-04 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
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