Bug#629994: sendfile returns early without user-visible reason
Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:17:22AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I looked at both. I suppose we will have to agree to disagree here ---
>
> Yes, but thats your lack of understanding prose logic, not a valid
> disagreement:
Is insulting people what "agree to disagree" means? :)
This is my last reply to this bug. (I will be happy to continue to
pursue the manpages-dev bug, though.)
I think you completely misunderstood my intent here. As both you and
I have mentioned, whether you are interpreting POSIX correctly here is
entirely irrelevant. As you mentioned, Unix tradition, user
expectations, and what applications actually do are more important as a
normative force. As I mentioned, the upstream Linux maintainers could
care less about what POSIX says. So why am I bothering to mention
that this part of POSIX, not unusually for a piece of text that
probably used to be a Solaris manpage and was only later massaged into
a standards document, has room for improvement?
Because I would like to see it improved. This seems like an example
of the "platform problem"[1] --- we are not used to having the power
to talk to and help the people that make the software and
documentation we use, so it looks like a rigid thing.
But yeah, if you want to interpret it as me being argumentative and in
denial about a bug instead of paying attention to what I am saying, go
right ahead.
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/443531/
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