Re: error to be returned while suspended

Oliver Neukum
2006-10-03T13:01:59Z

Am Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2006 14:51 schrieb linux-os (Dick Johnson):
>
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > which error should a character device return if a read/write cannot be
> > serviced because the device is suspended? Shouldn't there be an error
> > code specific to that?
> >
> > Regards
> > Oliver
>
> The de-facto error codes were created long before one could "suspend"
> a device, so there isn't a ESUSP code. However, I suggest EIO or EBUSY

CUPS chokes on these. Is it acceptable to say that you should know
what you're doing when suspending?

> unless you want to define an ESUSP and get it accepted by the POSIX
> committee.

This would be the cleanest solution. How does one do that?

Regards
Oliver