Problems installing from Cygwinports

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 14:42:00 GMT 2011


On 03/31/2011 08:35 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> The second problem is a setup bug: If we get an unexpected short read from the
> archive stream decompressor, we'll sit in an infinite loop writing garbage to
> the output file 5 bytes at a time.  A patch is attached which fixes that, but
> since these errors are  unreported (see comment in io_stream::copy), we just
> stop expanding the archive, leaving an incomplete glxext.h

Would returning -EIO be better, since a negative value is a key that
something went wrong besides normal end of file?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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