cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_syscalls.c

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> writes:
> > Is this the same bug that used to be in sendfile but got corrected
> > some years back?
> Dunno, but it sounds like we really need a comprehensive set of
> edge-case tests for sendfile.

This was not an edge case.  The edge case (no offset, no length, no
header) was the one that worked; it was the non-trivial case (non-zero
offset, explicit length, non-empty header) that was broken.  Nobody
noticed because existing code (Apache, ftpd) only exercises the edge
case.

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