On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:18:33AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Point, but I would argue that we should yell very loud if we get 0 from > vfs_write() for non-zero size. I'm not sure if POSIX allows write(2) > to return that, but a lot of userland code won't be expecting that and > won't be able to cope...
PS: I agree that we should abort that loop if we get nr == 0, of course, but I believe that we should report the pathname of the offending file, at the very least. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
