> The main reason would be that length would be 0 only if the buffers
> were full, so the caller can suspend writing if it sees that, until
> e.g. a daemon catches up.

Would be? Is there actually any caller doing this? 

Better eliminate it and if someone really does it add a separate function
that checks this condition.

-Andi
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