Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:16:53 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: jmg@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bright@rush.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/12780: tun code panics when 0 bytes written (PATCH included) Message-ID: <39283.932761013@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:09:04 PDT." <199907232009.NAA91328@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Zero length writes to a device are legal, at some point it was the way to write end of file and end of tape for magtapes: you would do one zero length write after each file and two at the end of the tape. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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