Re: [PATCH 01/11] vfs: copy_file_range source range over EOF should fail

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On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 06:12:52AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Realistically, though, I think an attempt to read beyond EOF for the
> > copy should result in behaviour like read() (i.e. return 0 bytes),
> > not EINVAL. The existing behaviour needs to change, though.
> 
> I agree with this statement.  So we don't we implement these semantics?

No, we don't.

I will rework the patch series to make attempts to copy beyond the
end of the source file return 0 to indicate that there is no more
data to copy rather than return an error.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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