From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 23 13:53:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776A215092 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:53:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA39401; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:50:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: bright@rush.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/12780: tun code panics when 0 bytes written (PATCH included) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:38:03 PDT." <19990723133803.42096@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:50:33 +0200 Message-ID: <39399.932763033@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >yes, but this prevents tun from panicing BECAUSE of a zero length >write, this does not effect the device subsystem in any way... I know. I just wanted to answer the originator of the PR why zero length writes were not stopped higher up. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message