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From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs
 and procfs.
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The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
To: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no>
Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>,
	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: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:35:43 +0200

 On 2011-12-10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
 > Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
 > > Could you give an example about such state? Isn't the length first
 > > initialized to zero and then increased only when byte(s) has been
 > > successfully appended to the buffer? sbuf_len() has worked for
 > > unfinished buffers since r71724.
 > 
 > A fixed-length sbuf may overflow intentionally (as in pseudofs) or
 > unintentionally; a dynamic sbuf may also overflow due to a memory
 > allocation failure.  The first two cases are expected, but the third is
 > not, and I am not sure the sbuf should be considered valid in such a
 > case.
 
 Thanks, I see your point. However, currently after a memory allocation
 failure, finishing the buffer is allowed and sbuf_data() will return the
 buffer. According to phk@ sbuf_finish() should finish any buffer.
 
 -- 
 Jaakko