Re: [PATCH 3/4] pagemap: Return EINVAL, not EIO, for unalignedreads of kpagecount or kpageflags (v2 of series)

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:40 -0400, Thomas Tuttle wrote:
> If the user tries to read from a position that is not a multiple of 8, or
> read a number of bytes that is not a multiple of 8, they have passed an
> invalid argument to read, for the purpose of reading these files.  It's
> not an IO error because we didn't encounter any trouble finding the data
> they asked for.

Hmm. I seem to recall choosing EIO because that's what unaligned reads
with direct I/O report. I don't particularly care though.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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