On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 15:27:13 +0100 Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I'd say it depends on if the "specific case that hps raised a few > years ago" sentence part refers to an actual problem; i.e. did it > happen in practice? If yes, leaving KASSERTs looks like the best > option. I've found hps's original email thread, which is at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-June/012342.html . The argument for allowing zero-length reads/writes is at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-June/012348.html . I suspect the mistake occurred due to a misunderstanding of the API. NetBSD have documented it in their man page but not added asserts in the code: "Functions which take a count of bytes have undefined results if the specified count is zero." -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
