On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:09, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013/11/22 07:25, Maxime Villard wrote:
>> If write() fails without EPIPE, d is decremented, and the function >> keeps looping. If write() succeeds after several loops, d will be >> negative, and the function will write from buf-XX. When does write() fail and do we want to keep writing? (If I fill up the filesystem, do I really want to spin here?) > Shouldn't it be something more like this? Otherwise if the write() fails, > we attempt writing one byte fewer for every retry. That looks better to me.
