Re: sysfs: write returns ENOMEM?

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Dmitry,

On 8/19/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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