On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 03:44:45PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Viktor Dukhovni:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 02:08:58PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> >
> > > Excellent. We narrowed down the problem to the VSTREAM_GETC() call,
> > > established why the call failed, and I added logging in so that
> > > this will be easier to diagnose in the future.
> >
> > Should there be an explicit flush after the attr_vprint()? Otherwise,
> > write errors will instead be reported as read errors after attr_scan()
> > fails to flush the output buffer...
>
> Given that cyles are finite, we cannot achieve perfection in every
> respect. What do we optimize for?
That's the question really. I am not sure the warnings for such
rare kernel bugs are worth the trouble at all, but if we're bothering
to do them, I'm somewhat inclined to report reasonably accurate
symtoms. Otherwise, just rely on strace and the like to tell the
complete story.
--
Viktor.
