From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [patch] s_maxbytes handling
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:33:23 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200105221933.VAA78546.aeb@vlet.cwi.nl> (raw)
Linus writes:
0 is EOF _for_reads_. For writes it is not very well defined
Hmm.
So -EFBIG is certainly the preferable return value,
Yes. The Austin 6th draft writes
EFBIG:
An attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the implementation-defined
maximum file size or the process' file size limit, and there was no room for
any bytes to be written.
Andries
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2001-05-22 19:33 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
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2001-05-22 12:52 [patch] s_maxbytes handling Andrew Morton
2001-05-22 13:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 14:47 ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-22 15:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 17:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-22 18:24 ` David N. Lombard
2001-05-23 18:02 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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