Eric Blake wrote:
According to Jim Meyering on 3/3/2010 2:29 AM:
>> ACK, looks fine !
>
> I pushed this, and then (sorry I missed it the first time)
> noticed that we'd rather avoid that new use of errno.
> errno is not defined for a shorter-than-expected read, so including
> strerror(errno) in the diagnostic would be misleading.
Good point. Were you planning on the followup patch for this, or do I
need to pick up the slack?
I figured you'd do it while addressing the malicious input problem
a few lines below.