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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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