From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:33:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:33:39 -0400 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:58013 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:33:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:33:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Message-Id: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [patch] s_maxbytes handling Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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