From: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
To: chet.ramey@case.edu, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: palves@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
binutils@sourceware.org, bug-readline@gnu.org, amodra@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] readline/histfile.c: Check and retry write() operation in history_truncate_file()
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 01:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A23D77.1040905@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A1F78A.8020508@case.edu>
On 06/19/2014 04:33 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 6/10/14, 10:35 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>> For regular file, write() operation may also fail, so check it too. If
>> write() return 0, can simply wait and try again, it should not suspend
>> infinitely if environments have no critical issues.
>
> Readline-6.3 checks the return value from write() and returns a non-zero
> value to the history_truncate_file caller. I really don't think that
> waiting forever if write continues to return 0 is a great idea; an error
> return is enough to let the caller deal with it.
>
That sounds fine to me, and I will send patch v2 for it. And excuse me,
I have to do some other things today, so I shall try to send it within 2
days (within 2014-06-21) -- if it is too late, please help send it.
Thanks.
--
Chen Gang
Open, share, and attitude like air, water, and life which God blessed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-19 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-11 2:36 Chen Gang
2014-06-18 20:33 ` [Bug-readline] " Chet Ramey
2014-06-19 1:31 ` Chen Gang [this message]
2014-06-20 8:58 ` Chen Gang
2014-06-20 21:53 ` Chet Ramey
2014-06-21 2:25 ` Chen Gang
2014-06-21 23:19 ` Chet Ramey
2014-06-22 2:01 ` Chen Gang
2014-06-23 13:57 ` Chet Ramey
2014-06-23 14:59 ` Chen Gang
2014-06-25 22:16 ` Chen Gang
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