Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 10:09:33 EST

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chris@scary.beasts.org said:
> I think the proper fix, long term, is to fix our internal I/O routine
> APIs so that they are capable of returning a byte count _and_ an
> error. One day, that might be a useful thing to export to userspace.

The MTD code already does this.

-- dwmw2

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