Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 22:01:56 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sendfile erroniously returns ENOTCONN. Message-ID: <20040103060156.GV9623@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20040103054115.GV56722@nexus.dglawrence.com> References: <20040103005338.GU9623@elvis.mu.org> <20040103054115.GV56722@nexus.dglawrence.com>
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* David G. Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com> [040102 21:41] wrote: > > sendfile(8) tries to maintain compatibility with sosend as much as is > reasonable. ENOTCONN is the appropriate error to return if the socket > isn't connected. sosend checks SS_CANTSENDMORE prior to the check for > SS_ISCONNECTED, however, and returns EPIPE in that case. Perhaps sendfile > should be changed to do the same (just a though - I'm not proposing > that this be done). > Removing the check entirely seems clearly wrong, however. I had forgotten that sendfile bypasses sosend(9). I could add the check, is there a reason not to? The one reason I figured was that sometimes blocking sigpipe can be hairy inside libraries. Now that we can selectively disable SIGPIPE using the setsockopt using Apple's code this is less of an issue. -- - Alfred Perlstein - Research Engineering Development Inc. - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684
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