The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: m...@freebsd.org
To: Jaakko Heinonen <j...@freebsd.org>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <d...@des.no>,
Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>, Petr Salinger
<petr.salin...@seznam.cz>, bug-follo...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs
and procfs.
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:33:46 -0800
2011/12/9 Jaakko Heinonen <j...@freebsd.org>:
> On 2011-12-09, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>> > Could we just remove the error check from sbuf_len()? (patch below) I
>> > have Cc'd more people.
>>
>> Why?
>
> As I wrote existing code depends on sbuf_len() to return the actual
> length regardless of the error status after sbuf_finish(). I am not
> willing to through all code using sbufs to check where it causes
> problems. phk@ asserts that r222004 is correct.
What is causing sbuf to have an error in the first place? The size of
flies in /proc are generally small and malloc(3) errors are rare.
Thanks,
matthew
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