* Samuel Thibault (samuel.thiba...@gnu.org) wrote: > Hello, > > Dr. David Alan Gilbert, le lun. 08 avril 2019 09:46:53 +0100, a ecrit: > > 'soread' has the comment: > > > > /* > > * No need to check if there's enough room to read. > > * soread wouldn't have been called if there weren't > > */ > > sopreprbuf(so, iov, &n); > > > > the compiler doesn't realise that, and is moaning about the case > > where the if (len <=0) return happens and the following > > code tries to use iov. > > I see. Perhaps we should make this an assert then? In case this isn't > true, i.e. soread() is called even if no room is available, returning 0 > would probably just let the caller just try again, and we should rather > just plainly crash than hang?
Adding the assert in soread sorts that case out: assert(sopreprbuf(so, iov, &n) != 0); however, I also need to fix soreadbuf; is it legal to call that with a 0 size? Dave > Samuel -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
