Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:44:01PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 8/22/05, Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:34:48PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > This should fix it, but I'm not on a machine where I can test it. Can
> > > you give it a try and let me know?
> > >
> > 
> > it works ok.
> > But there is still at least one problem: if ops->store returns an error,
> > then there will be a substraction and the write will loop (i could do it
> > with a store wich returned EINVAL and a 22 length string).
> > 
> > I don't know if you can put a '\0' at buffer->page[count] if
> > count == PAGE_SIZE.
> > 
> > Moreover, i think it is more correct to add only the leading
> > whitespace from the count because if the ops->store doesn't read
> > everything it will do something weird:
> > 
> > For example, if we have ' 123    ' and ops->store read only one char,
> > then the function will return 7 (1 leading + 4 trailing + 1 read).  For
> > the next call the buffer will be filled only by spaces which is
> > incorrect (it should be '23    ').
> 
> The attached version tries to fix these issues. I am still not
> somewhere where I can test, so please check it out.
> 

Yes it works fine, thanks.

Benoit Boissinot

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