Re: [PATCH -mm 5/5][AIO] - Add listio syscall support

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jan 24 2007 - 00:54:35 EST


On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:55:54 +0100
Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +struct lio_event *lio_create(struct sigevent __user *user_event,
> + int mode)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + struct lio_event *lio = NULL;
> +
> + if (unlikely((mode == LIO_NOWAIT) && !user_event))
> + return lio;
> +
> + lio = kzalloc(sizeof(*lio), GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> + if (!lio)
> + return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
> +

Why EAGAIN and not ENOMEM?
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