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Subject: Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs 
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chris@scary.beasts.org said:
>  I think the proper fix, long term, is to fix our internal I/O routine
> APIs so that they are capable of returning a byte count _and_ an
> error. One day, that might be a useful thing to export to userspace. 

The MTD code already does this. 

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dwmw2


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