Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 May 2007 22:50:37 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sendfile removal |
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Jens Axboe wrote: >>> >> I would personally argue that sendfile() blocking on an O_NONBLOCK >> desriptor, as opposed to returning EAGAIN, is a bug, and a fairly >> serious such. > > I agree, but it's still a change in behaviour. Even if we consider the > app buggy (it is), can we potentially break it? >
It depends on which app it is, of course. However, I think we have to smoke that out the hard way. I don't think we should retain a bug in the kernel just because some unknown app might depend on that bug -- taking that to the extreme we could never fix bugs at all...
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