Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:17:30 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/sysctl.c: If "count" including the terminating byte '\0' the write system call should retrun success. |
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On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:11:38 +0800 Sean Fu <fxinrong@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Sean Fu <fxinrong@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Sean Fu <fxinrong@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > >>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:17:29 +0800 > >>> Sean Fu <fxinrong@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> strace execute result: > >>>> write(3, "1\2\0", 3) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) > > If vleft > 1, "1\0 2" is treated as invalid paraments and all string > > include '\0' will be invalid. > Hi All experts, > Could you please signed off this patch?
If anyone should take this, it would be Andrew.
I have no issue with the patch. Eric, you had some issue, but I don't see a scenario that would depend on the current behavior. That is, what do you think would break if we put it back to the old behavior?
-- Steve
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