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Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from
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The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no>,
        Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,
        mdf@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs and procfs.
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:08:12 +0000

 In message <20111209123616.GA32253@a91-153-116-96.elisa-laajakaista.fi>, Jaakko
  Heinonen writes:
 >On 2011-12-09, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
 
 >As I wrote existing code depends on sbuf_len() to return the actual
 >length regardless of the error status after sbuf_finish().
 
 What do you mean by "actual length" ?
 
 The length it would have if there hadn't been errors ?
 
 I don't object to that.
 
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