Re: pread() and pwrite()

From: Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Oskari Saarenmaa <os(at)ohmu(dot)fi>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tobias Oberstein <tobias(dot)oberstein(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pread() and pwrite()
Date: 2018-11-07 15:05:02
Message-ID: 0f419c91-49ab-2399-0143-13063bd97c46@redhat.com
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Hi Tom,

On 11/7/18 9:30 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm confused by this. Surely the pwrite-based code is writing exactly the
> same data as before. Do we have to conclude that valgrind is complaining
> about passing uninitialized data to pwrite() when it did not complain
> about exactly the same thing for write()?
>
> [ looks ... ] No, what we have to conclude is that the write-related
> suppressions in src/tools/valgrind.supp need to be replaced or augmented
> with pwrite-related ones.
>

The attached patch fixes this for me.

Unfortunately pwrite* doesn't work for the pwrite64(buf) line.

Best regards,
Jesper

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valgrind-supp.patch text/x-patch 306 bytes

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