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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] DOSEMU image file support


From: Gianni Tedesco
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] DOSEMU image file support
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:04:32 +0100

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 19:12 +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > The reason I used stdio is that read/write are non-blocking. It is
> > not an error for read to return fewer bytes than requested. If that
> > happens, the other block drivers fail.
> 
> I agree, but for disk accesses it is usual to assume they return the 
> requested amount of bytes. fread/fwrite are buffered I/Os which is a bit 
> overkill for block drivers.

Heh,

Not if an unmasked signal is received on NFS mounted soft/intr. That is
because POSIX "allows a read that is interrupted after reading some data
to return -1 (with errno set to EINTR) or to return the number of bytes
already read."

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// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)
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