From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysfs: write returns ENOMEM?
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:29:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050819072947.GA6894@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508190055.25747.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:55:25AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> [Apologies if you see this message twice - I accidentially sent it in HTML
> format first time around and I am pretty sure LKML will eat it]
>
> Hi,
>
> According to the SuS write() can not return ENOMEM, only ENOBUFS is allowed
> (surprisingly read() is allowed to use both ENOMEM and ENOBUFS):
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/write.html
>
> Should we adjust sysfs write to follow the standard?
Sure, I don't have a problem with this. Anyone else object?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-19 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <11394.1124781401@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
2005-08-19 5:55 ` sysfs: write returns ENOMEM? Dmitry Torokhov
2005-08-19 7:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-08-19 7:39 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-08-23 7:32 ` Nathan Scott
2005-08-23 7:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-08-23 8:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-23 8:36 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-08-23 8:46 ` [PATCH] mm: return ENOBUFS instead of ENOMEM in generic_file_buffered_write Pekka J Enberg
2005-08-23 11:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-23 13:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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