Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:21:03 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc_r/uthread uthread_write.c Message-ID: <20031217122003.B70894@root.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10312171448020.26635-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10312171448020.26635-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Nate Lawson wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > Does this fix something other than bacula? > > > > Anyone else who expected this semantics. I have no specific examples. > > I think it probably only pertinent to writing to tape devices > where a 0 return means end of tape. Otherwise you should > get -1 with an appropriate errno or just wait until all > the requested data has been written. > > I asked if this fixed something because I was asked if this > was a 5.2R candidate. Oh, I thought it mattered for people doing non-blocking writes from a thread also. -Nate
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