Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] man/send(2): add EPERM to the list of possible errors

From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:14:49 +0900

Hi Pablo,

On 2013/03/26 19:48, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 05:37:50PM +0900, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Do you see any problem with these two patches?
> Please, hold on with the second patch.

Are you Ok with getting patch 1 merged while be discuss
what to do about the issue that the second patch tried to
document? Could I get your "Acked-by" for it?

> I'd like to find a possible solution for the EPERM problem that we've
> been discussing. It requires some rework and performance evaluation.

The problem is that there is a huge installed base of
systems that show this broken behaviour, so even if
we find a proper fix for it we still should document
which systems may be affected by the spurious EPERM
bug, thus giving application programmers a chance to
add logic to their programs to recover from such
eventualities.

Regards,
Fernando
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