Re: EINTR for fsync(2)

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Mathnerd314, Matthew,

On 2/1/22 01:30, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
[...]
> So while it's worth adding EINTR to the man page, I don't think it's
> worth going through an exercise of trying to add every possible
> errno to every syscall.
> 

Okay.  I documented this error.

Thanks,

Alex

---
    fsync.2: ERRORS: Document EINTR

    Reported-by: Mathnerd314 <mathnerd314.gph@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
    Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2
index 0f070ed2c..c79723ed8 100644
--- a/man2/fsync.2
+++ b/man2/fsync.2
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ is set to indicate the error.
 .I fd
 is not a valid open file descriptor.
 .TP
+.B EINTR
+The function was interrupted by a signal; see
+.BR signal (7).
+.TP
 .B EIO
 An error occurred during synchronization.
 This error may relate to data written to some other file descriptor


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Alejandro Colomar
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