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Re: io_read() semantics
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: io_read() semantics |
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10 Jun 2002 17:47:35 -0700 |
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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> This is not a strict requirement. A server can do any of the following:
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> 1. Allocate a new, large enough buffer.
> 2. Just return fewer data.
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> and a server can even:
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> 3. Return a new buffer although the old one was large enough.
None of this is really the server's doing; most of it is MiG.