Strange echo behaviour

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at sunsite.dk
Thu Jan 27 09:44:13 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Denys" == Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> writes:

 >> That is, the return value of write() is larger that the written buffer (is
 >> this legal?) so echo (or ash) tries again with a bogus count == -1.

 Denys> I think this needs to be fixed in uClibc, but this looks like a
 Denys> grave kernel bug.

Yes, I sent a fix to linux-input:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/17953

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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