linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Remove repeated test in ext4_file_read

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:10:33 +0800
From:   Sean Fu <fxinrong@...il.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Remove repeated test in ext4_file_read_iter.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:02:55PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:01:49PM +0800, Sean Fu wrote:
> >
> > Correct, IOCB_NOWAIT read with zero count can return -EAGAIN, But I
> > think that it is reasonable. while it got lock, zero would be returned
> > in this case.
> 
> Returning -EAGAIN and 0 are not the same thing.  Specifically
> returning 0 means "end of file".  Hence, it is NOT reasonable.
> 
I know that two returnning value mean different things.
once the inode is not under lock contention, read again with zero count
would return zero.
> See the man page for read(2) or the relevant Single Unix Specification
> standard:
> 
> RETURN VALUE
>      On success, the number of bytes read is returned (zero indicates
>      end of file)....
> 
> Changing the behavior of the system in which will break userspace is
> never acceptable, and even more so given that this is just a "cleanup
> patch".
>
I agree with you at this point.
Thanks for your reply.

> 						- Ted
>