Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:31:27 +0200 | From | Dominique Martinet <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] 9p update for 5.7 |
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L29Ah wrote on Tue, Apr 07, 2020: > In fact i would prefer disabling the full reads unconditionally, but > AFAIR some userspace programs might interpret a short read as EOF (and > also would need to check the logic that motivated the kernel-side > looping).
Willy is correct there we can't just do that, way too many applications would break.
I think O_NONBLOCK on regular files is a good compromise, let's not go overboard :)
-- Dominique
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