On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:05:38PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> reopen 11922
> thanks
>
> Debian Bug Tracking System writes ("Bug#11922 closed by maximilian attems
> <m...@stro.at> (Re: Bug#11922: I/O error on blank tapes)"):
> > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008, Kai Makisara wrote:
> > > This is not a bug, it is a feature. There is _nothing_ on the tape and if
> > > you try to read something, you get an error. The same thing applies to
> > > reading after the last filemark. Note that after writing a filemark at
> > > the
> > > beginning of the tape, the situation is different. Now there is a file
> > > and
> > > the normal EOF semantics apply although there still is no data.
>
> If one takes this view, then the program which is reading the tape
> should get EOF. Obviously I disagree with that view. I think it's
> appropriate for the driver to give EIO in this case but ...
>
> > > I admit that the error return could be more descriptive but the st driver
> > > tries to be compatible with other Unices.
>
> ... IMO anything that gives EIO should also generate a log message to
> say why.
>
> This bug report is not about the errno value passed to the userland
> program, but about the lack of a log message.
If you want to see that changed, please report this upstream. Otherwise
it just clutters the Debian kernel bugs, which are already too hard
to handle.
Cheers,
Moritz
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