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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: sysfs: write returns ENOMEM?
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:39:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020508190039322a486c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508190055.25747.dtor_core@ameritech.net>

Hi Dmitry,

On 8/19/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote:
> 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?

Please note that sysfs is not the only one to do this. A quick peek
reveals XFS and CIFS returing ENOMEM for write() and there are
probably others as well. Perhaps we should replace ENOMEM with ENOBUFS
in vfs_write() instead?

linvfs_write
	xfs_write
		xfs_zero_eof
			xfs_zero_last_block
				xfs_iozero
					-> Returns -ENOMEM

cifs_user_write
	cifs_reopen_file
		-> Returns -ENOMEM

                            Pekka

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-19  7:39 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
2005-08-19  7:39   ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
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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