The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <[email protected]> To: Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]>, Petr Salinger <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs and procfs. Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:17:59 +0100 Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> writes: > After looking at some code using sbufs I think that the sbuf(9) API > change done in r222004 is problematic. I agree, but it's far from the first poorly thought-out change in the sbuf API. The biggest mistake was to allow userland to use the same API and code rather than its own implementation of a subset of the API. > Could we just remove the error check from sbuf_len()? (patch below) I > have Cc'd more people. Why? > sbuf(9) manual page wrongly claims that sbuf_data() will return NULL if > the buffer has overflowed. This used to be the case. I don't know why I removed the check. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
