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From: Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
To: Clayton Weaver <cgweav@email.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4.19] read(2) and page aligned buffers
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:43:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021107134346.GA25833@www.kroptech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021107065421.20283.qmail@email.com>

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:54:21AM -0500, Clayton Weaver wrote:
> Here is wrap_read() (assume that the appropriate #includes are there):

Your code is broken, and for exactly the same reason I told you
yesterday.

>       default: /* partial read */
> 	switch(errno) {
> 	case EINTR:    /* interrupted by signal */
> 	case EAGAIN:   /* O_NONBLOCK ? */
> 	  retval += tmpret;
> 	  break;

I repeat: Checking errno when read() has returned something other than
-1 is ILLEGAL. Period. This check is triggering early, thus giving your
supposed early EOF.

This is not even remotely a kernel issue.

--Adam

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-07 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-07  6:54 [2.4.19] read(2) and page aligned buffers Clayton Weaver
2002-11-07 13:43 ` Adam Kropelin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-06 18:13 Clayton Weaver
2002-11-06 19:38 ` Adam Kropelin

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