Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:20:17 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] POLLHUP tinkering ... | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:11:10 -0800 (PST)
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, David S. Miller wrote: > > > The extra last read is always necessary, it's an error synchronization > > barrier. Did you know that? > > > > If a partial read or write hits an error, the successful amount of > > bytes read or written before the error occurred is returned. Then any > > subsequent read or write will report the error immediately. > > Sorry for the missing info, but I was clearly talking about O_NONBLOCK > here.
What I said still applies to O_NONBLOCK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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