From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:05:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031118170509.71bfb039.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031118154921.GA28942@mail.shareable.org>
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:49:21 +0000
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > s/EINTR/short count/, of course :)
> >
> > That would be buggy because existing users of sendfile don't know
> > about this and would silently only copy part of the file when a signal
> > happens.
>
> That doesn't make sense. There aren't any existing users of sendfile
> to copy files.
[ignore the mail, it was an stuck mail queue]
But note that arbitary changes in the signal handling would affect all users of sendfile, not just
those that attempt to copy files or do other things that should be done in user space.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-18 16:05 UTC|newest]
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2003-11-14 15:26 ` OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? Andi Kleen
2003-11-18 15:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-18 16:05 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-11-18 16:25 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-11-19 13:30 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-18 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-19 2:12 ` Linus Torvalds
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2003-11-11 20:22 ` Jan Harkes
2003-11-11 20:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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2003-11-11 12:43 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-11-11 3:50 ` Andreas Dilger
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2003-11-11 6:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-11-11 8:58 ` Florian Weimer
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2003-11-22 19:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-22 23:07 ` Andreas Schwab
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2003-11-20 21:48 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-21 16:34 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-20 22:31 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-11-20 22:44 ` Andreas Dilger
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2003-11-14 1:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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2003-11-11 14:11 ` Albert Cahalan
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