On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:58:58PM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> In message <E12EEUh-00053m-00@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
> +-----
> | > - return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
> | > + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> |
> | ENOMEM isnt a valid return to open() except for a streams file. Quite why
> | SuS specifies this I dont know.
> +--->8
>
> System V returns EAGAIN for this kind of condition, since it's considered a
> "temporarily out of system resources" kind of error, FWIW. It would seem to
> make a bit more sense than EACCES.
Yes.
What version of System V is this? I have a handful of System V manuals,
but mine either do not list EAGAIN at all (for open()) or describe it
by "the path argument names the slave side of a pseudo-terminal device
that is locked". Or is this undocumented behaviour?
Andries
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