Em Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:16:19AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> On 9/17/12 8:55 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> >2. the rwtop.pl script is not handling negative return values ($ret < 0)
> >properly -- the '$ret > 0' check is succeeding even though $ret is
> >negative (e.g., -EAGAIN) leading to astronomical read values
>
> I think perl is treating $ret as an unsigned integer.
>
> Again, I know little about perl, but this change to
> ./scripts/perl/rwtop.pl makes it behave properly:
>
> my $n = sprintf("%d", $ret);
>
> if ($n > 0) {
> ...
I think what you figured out makes sense, its the best we have and you
found it to get it back working, could you please send the two patches
properly signed-off, etc?
If Andrew could please test the patchset so that I could add his
Tested-by, that would be great,
Thanks,
- Arnaldo
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