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Re: [PATCH][BZ #13601] Retry read in ld.so if the entire ELF headeris not read in

From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:42:08 +0530
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BZ #13601] Retry read in ld.so if the entire ELF headeris not read in
References: <20121019201444.06c09192@spoyarek><20121019180232.GO254@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:02:33 -0400, Rich wrote:
> In reality, I don't think this ever happens. Reads on ordinary files
> do not "block" and are not subject to interruption by signals or any
> other conditions that could cause an early return. If you want to test
> it you could try having it read from a pipe instead, but the
> subsequent mmap will of course fail so all you could test is that the
> split reading works.

How about nfs or sshfs or equivalent?


Siddhesh

References:
- [PATCH][BZ #13601] Retry read in ld.so if the entire ELF header isnot read in
  - From: Siddhesh Poyarekar
- Re: [PATCH][BZ #13601] Retry read in ld.so if the entire ELF headeris not read in
  - From: Rich Felker

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