Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261874AbTHFNyF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:54:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262439AbTHFNyF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:54:05 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:25609 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261874AbTHFNx6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:53:58 -0400 To: Michael Buesch Cc: "lode leroy" , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: 2.5.70 lockup while write()ing to /dev/hda1 References: <200308061447.46364.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: Let's all show human CONCERN for REVEREND MOON's legal difficulties!! Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:38:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200308061447.46364.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> (Michael Buesch's message of "Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:47:33 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 28 Michael Buesch writes: |> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 14:32, lode leroy wrote: |> > main() |> > { |> > int f = open("/dev/hda1", O_RDWR); |> > char buffer[8192]; |> > for(i=0;1;i++) { |> > printf("%d\r", i); |> > write(f, buffer, sizeof(buffer); |> |> Shouldn't this be: |> write(f, buffer, sizeof(buffer) / sizeof(buffer[0])); sizeof(char) == 1, always and everywhere. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N?rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/