------- Additional Comments From madcoder at debian dot org 2007-09-22 19:57 ------- Subject: Re: FILE* operations are not robust enough with signals
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:40:58PM +0000, nix at esperi dot org dot uk wrote: > > ------- Additional Comments From nix at esperi dot org dot uk 2007-09-22 > 19:40 ------- > This patch turns out to be a seriously bad idea, because no other libcs > preserve the stdio buffer state on error. At least bash, zsh, and rpc.mountd > in > all released versions of nfs-utils are known to fail with this patch applied, > with rpc.mountd failing in such a way that NFS service appears to entirely > fail > because no fhs can be validated. (Also several of glibc's own tests fail.) > > Ideally you'd think it would be better: it's avoiding data loss. But a lot of > programs are *expecting* data loss in this situation, and avoiding it makes > them misbehave... Have you any evidence of that ? Because it definitely does not makes sense to me. Debian has the patch, and we didn't saw any of those problem show up yet. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4656 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
