Re: [PATCH] kernel/sysctl.c: If "count" including the terminating byte '\0' the write system call should retrun success.

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:48:01 +0800
Sean Fu <fxinrong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> > Defending the patch, I can't imagine any user space code expecting the
> > current behavior. The current behavior is that if you write "1\0" it
> > will error out instead of accepting the "1". I can't come up with a
> > scenario that would require userspace to expect "1\0" to fail. Can you?
> Thanks

Although, with the current patch, would "1\02" fail? It should.

-- Steve
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