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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 :)

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Dominique