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From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To: L29Ah <l29ah@cock.li>
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
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] 9p update for 5.7
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:31:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200407063127.GA30642@nautica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200407021626.cd3wwbg7ayiwt4ry@l29ah-x201.l29ah-x201>

L29Ah wrote on Tue, Apr 07, 2020:
> In fact i would prefer disabling the full reads unconditionally, but
> AFAIR some userspace programs might interpret a short read as EOF (and
> also would need to check the logic that motivated the kernel-side
> looping).

Willy is correct there we can't just do that, way too many applications
would break.

I think O_NONBLOCK on regular files is a good compromise, let's not go
overboard :)

-- 
Dominique

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-07  6:31 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
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 [this message]
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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