On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:56:07AM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > Programs that assume a full transfer are fairly common, but are > universally regarded as either broken or just lazy, and when it does cause > a problem, it is far more common to fix the application than the kernel. Linus has explicitly forbidden short reads from being returned. The original poster may get away with it for a specialised case, but for example, signals may not cause a return to userspace with a short read for exactly this reason. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
