On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I'm more concerned by sendfile() users like Apache, Samba, FTPd. In > an earlier thread on this topic, I asked if the splice bug can also > result in sendfile() sending blocks of zeros, when a file is truncated > after it has been sent, and the answer was yes probably. > > Not that I checked or anything. But if it affects sendfile() it's a > bigger deal - that has many users. Nick also pointed out, that it also affects plain read(2), albeit only with a tiny window. But partial truncates are _rare_ (we don't even have a UNIX utility for that ;), so in practice all this may not actually matter very much. Miklos -- 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
