From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261638AbUEQPky (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 11:40:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261680AbUEQPky (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 11:40:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36050 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261638AbUEQPkw (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 11:40:52 -0400 Subject: Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Wayne Scott , akpm@osdl.org, elenstev@mesatop.com, lm@bitmover.com, wli@holomorphy.com, hugh@veritas.com, adi@bitmover.com, scole@lanl.gov, support@bitmover.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <200405162136.24441.elenstev@mesatop.com> <20040516231120.405a0d14.akpm@osdl.org> <20040517.085640.30175416.wscott@bitmover.com> <20040517151738.GA4730@thunk.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4LWhxcX1iKH+Nnf7jWid" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1084808421.7410.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:40:21 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-4LWhxcX1iKH+Nnf7jWid Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >=20 > Who came up with that braindead idea? Is it some crazed Mach developer=20 > that infiltrated the glibc development=20 afaik it's optional and off by default, for reads it sort of kinda makes sense but it can't be on by default otherwise a truncate would cause fscanf() to throw a sigbus, that's not legal posix wise. --=-4LWhxcX1iKH+Nnf7jWid Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAqNzlxULwo51rQBIRAgPmAKCGx9yH1obhUGM6irZWIqlISlvPCwCfeC2X 6UmL/rWN2kCFGi5jF3ELAa0= =yS8A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4LWhxcX1iKH+Nnf7jWid--