makefs(8) proposed changes [repost from fs@]

[John-Mark Gurney]

Sean Bruno wrote this message on Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:07 -0700:
> Is this patch going to break non "device" makefs calls?  e.g. if I want
> to create an image file and not use a loopback device?

If the image file is zero bytes, then yes, it will break it... as the
read will return a short value (possibly zero) ...  Why not add some
error checking and if the read doesn't read enough, write the
remaining bytes?  If there is a failure from the read, the operation
should fail...

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