Re: [2.6.18-rc* PATCH RFC]: Correct ambiguous errno of aio

From: Frederik Deweerdt
Date: Mon Aug 28 2006 - 10:05:35 EST


On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:28:48PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> In the current implementation of AIO, for the operation IOCB_CMD_FDSYNC
> and IOCB_CMD_FSYNC, the returned errno is -EINVAL although the kernel
> does know them, I think the correct errno should be -EOPNOTSUPP which
> means they aren't be implemented or supported.
Hi,

If I'm not mistaken, returning EINVAL conforms to POSIX, isn't it?
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fsync.html
Regards,
Frederik

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