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Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:22:11 +0300 |
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:06:14 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> On 04/13/2011 02:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I was asking whether testing errno for EWOULDBLOCK
> > and EAGAIN, and the code that deals with when that happens, are good
> > enough for all the possible reasons that emacs_write and
> > emacs_gnutls_write could return a partial count of bytes.
>
> The revised send_process code tests for EWOULDBLOCK and EAGAIN under
> the same conditions that it does now.
That's true, but it's not my point. The original code continued
looping and trying to write the rest of the stuff if emacs_write
returned a positive value that is smaller than what is was asked to
write. The new code bails out of the loop in that case, assuming that
it's due to an error.
> > sysdep.c is not about system things, it's about Emacs code that
> > requires platform-dependent techniques. Most of that indeed deals
> > with system types, but you will find quite a few Emacs specific
> > internals
>
> Yes, and I had already mentioned that the abstraction boundaries were
> sometimes being violated there. But let's not make matters worse.
> sysdep.c is supposed to be for interfaces to system-dependent kernel
> and library code, not for access to Emacs Lisp internals.
I was trying to point out that you are mistaken in your interpretation
of what sysdep.c is. But even I accept your POV, access to OS-level
features does not mean we cannot use Emacs-specific data types there
or forget about Emacs design. sysdep.c is not a library, it's part of
an application.
> >> For example, it would be a fairly small change to make Emacs buildable on
> >> a machine with 32-bit pointers and 64-bit EMACS_INT.
> >
> > Somehow, I doubt it is a small change. But if it is, by all means
> > let's do it now! What are we waiting for?
>
> I suspect you are joking, but if not, I'd be happy to implement it.
I'm not joking. How could I?
> It shouldn't take that long, and it'd be nice to remove that silly 512
> MiB limit. Would you object to such a change?
Of course not! Why should I object to a great feature like that?
> in the meantime, we have a proposed change that
> fixes bugs and doesn't introduce bugs. Since there are no downsides
> to this fix now, and no improvements to it have been suggested, we can
> install it now, and worry about future improvements later.
I'll let Stefan and Chong decide on that. I still think that using
ssize_t as the last argument to emacs_write is better.
> > Either you care about future changes or you don't.
>
> Both. I care about plausible future changes; and I also realize that
> we don't have time to program for all possibilities and need to fix
> what's before us, which the proposed patch does.
IOW, you care for what supports your arguments and don't care about
the rest.
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, (continued)
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/12
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Paul Eggert, 2011/04/12
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/12
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/04/12
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Paul Eggert, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Jim Meyering, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Paul Eggert, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Paul Eggert, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Paul Eggert, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, PJ Weisberg, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/14
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Paul Eggert, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/04/13
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/04/15
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Paul Eggert, 2011/04/15
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/04/15
- Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter, Stefan Monnier, 2011/04/14