On 04/29/2012 05:25 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I just looked at am-utils; am-utils *does* use autofs v5, and *will* >> loop back and read more data on a short read. > > Can you point to the sources? > > If it's "short read" as in "I didn't get as much as I expected", that's fine. > > If it is "short read" as in "I don't even try to read 300 bytes, I > read it in 8-byte chunks", we're screwed. > git://git.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/am-utils-6.2.git conf/autofs/autofs_linux.c static ssize_t autofs_get_pkt(int fd, void *buf, size_t bytes) { ssize_t i; do { i = read(fd, buf, bytes); if (i <= 0) break; buf = (char *)buf + i; bytes -= i; } while (bytes); return bytes; } ... #if AUTOFS_MAX_PROTO_VERSION >= 5 if (fh->version < 5) { len = sizeof(p.pkt); } else { len = sizeof(p.pkt5); } #else len = sizeof(p.pkt); #endif /* AUTOFS_MAX_PROTO_VERSION >= 5 */ if (autofs_get_pkt(fh->fd, &p, len)) continue; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html