The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Jaakko Heinonen <j...@freebsd.org>
Cc: Petr Salinger <petr.salin...@seznam.cz>, bug-follo...@freebsd.org,
d...@freebsd.org, m...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs
and procfs.
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:41:03 +0000
In message <20111211102608.ga2...@a91-153-116-96.elisa-laajakaista.fi>, Jaakko
Heinonen writes:
>On 2011-12-10, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>One problem is the different malloc() semantics. The kernel version uses
>M_WAITOK allocations while user space malloc(3) can fail.
Yes, that's Dag-Erlings and my point: The semantics are too different.
>Only 21 of 133 calls I grepped through the FreeBSD source tree did check
>the return value [of sbuf_finish()]
How many of them checked sbuf_error() instead ?
And seriously: how long would it take to fix 112 calls ?
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