yes, this is a bug in netbsd-current that was introduced with about 5 month
ago with the new unified buffer cache system. it has been fixed.
thanks.
From: Chuck Silvers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CVS commit: syssrc
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:37:44 +0300 (EEST)
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think this is indisputably a bug in (some versions of) NetBSD.
I forgot to mention a possible contributing factor: the files involved
were NFS-mounted, in the case I was looking at. So this may be an NFS
problem more than a NetBSD problem. Anyone
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can verify, that with NetBSD-current on sparc, your test code works
the way you want it to on local disk, but fails (in the way you've
observed), if the target file is on an NFS-mounted file system.
FWIW, the test program succeeds (no error)
I wrote:
I think this is indisputably a bug in (some versions of) NetBSD. If I
can seek past the end of file, read() shouldn't consider it a hard error
to read there --- and in any case, EFAULT isn't a very reasonable error
code to return. Since it seems not to be a widespread problem, I'm
