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From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Sergey Alirzaev <l29ah@cock.li>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] 9p update for 5.7
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 18:55:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200406165506.GA26216@nautica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200406164641.GF21484@bombadil.infradead.org>

Matthew Wilcox wrote on Mon, Apr 06, 2020:
> POSIX may well "allow" short reads, but userspace programmers basically
> never check the return value from read().  Short reads aren't actually
> allowed.  That's why signals are only allowed to interrupt syscalls if
> they're fatal (and the application will never see the returned value
> because it's already dead).

I've seen tons of programs not check read return value yes but these
also have no idea what O_NONBLOCK is so I'm not sure how realistic a
use-case that is?

The alternative I see would be making pipes go through the server as I
said, but that would probably mean another mount option for this; pipes
work as local pipes like they do in nfs currently.

-- 
Dominique

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-06 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-06 11:07 [GIT PULL] 9p update for 5.7 Dominique Martinet
2020-04-06 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-06 16:40   ` Dominique Martinet
2020-04-06 16:46     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-06 16:55       ` Dominique Martinet [this message]
2020-04-06 17:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-06 17:39         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-06 17:46           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-06 18:42             ` Dominique Martinet
2020-04-07  2:16     ` L29Ah
2020-04-07  6:31       ` Dominique Martinet
2020-04-07 17:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-06 16:45 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-04-08 15:12 ` [GIT PULL v2] " Dominique Martinet
2020-04-09  4:53   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-09  4:55   ` pr-tracker-bot

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