Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:20:17 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] POLLHUP tinkering ...
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:11:10 -0800 (PST)

> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > The extra last read is always necessary, it's an error synchronization
> > barrier.  Did you know that?
> >
> > If a partial read or write hits an error, the successful amount of
> > bytes read or written before the error occurred is returned.  Then any
> > subsequent read or write will report the error immediately.
> 
> Sorry for the missing info, but I was clearly talking about O_NONBLOCK 
> here.

What I said still applies to O_NONBLOCK.
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