74104 - nsFileTransport::Cancel needs to call nsIStreamIO::Cancel

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Judson Valeski]

This will allow blocking reads on the file transport to unblock when the load is
cancelled.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

With multiple threads, the solution to this problem is non-trivial.

As I understand this bug to apply more so to Read's which might block for
relatively long periods of time, I'd suggest that such nsIInputStream impl's
become non-blocking.  Then, let's fix the file transport to make it work with
non-blocking streams.  That way, we are not hogging a file transport thread
for nothing.  A non-blocking solution would be much better (and possibly the
only solution) if and when the file transport moves from a thread pool to 
running directly on the callers thread.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

moving forward on making the file transport support non-blocking streams,
instead of trying to solve the blocking-read/write cancelation problem.

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

futuring in favor of bug 74512

Comment 4

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

marking INVALID.  the code in question no longer exists.

Comment 6

[benc]

V/invalid.