Re: sysfs: write returns ENOMEM?

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 11:17:48 EST


On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:55:25AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> [Apologies if you see this message twice - I accidentially sent it in HTML
> format first time around and I am pretty sure LKML will eat it]
>
> Hi,
>
> 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?

Sure, I don't have a problem with this. Anyone else object?

thanks,

greg k-h
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