Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH 2/2] net/9p: Return error on read with NULL buffer

[Brad B. <fl...@al...>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 08:10:53PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> This patch ensures that a read(fd, NULL, 0 ) returns  EFAULT on a 9p file.

Is there some specific reason you want this behavior? I believe the
generic Linux code returns success in this case. I tried this exact
system call with fd being a pty or a file on ext3 and got 0 for both.

	Brad Boyer
	fl...@al...