Re: kern/127213: [tmpfs] sendfile on tmpfs data corruption

The following reply was made to PR kern/127213; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
To: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu>
Cc: [email]bug-followup@freebsd.org[/email]
Subject: Re: kern/127213: [tmpfs] sendfile on tmpfs data corruption
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:36:38 +0400 (MSD)

Hello,

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, 06:40-0000, Nate Eldredge wrote:

[...][color=blue]
> Incidentally, to the initial reporter, what application do you have
> that requires sendfile? In my experience, most things will fall
> back to a read/write loop if sendfile fails, since sendfile isn't
> available on all systems or under all circumstances. So if you
> apply the quick fix so that sendfile always fails, it might at
> least get your application working again.
>[/color]
As stated in the PR Andrey used nginx (ports/www/nginx). But I could
easily reproduce the bug with the stock ftpd(8) with the ftproot on
tmpfs.

--
Maxim Konovalov
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