Re: [PATCH 2/4] readv.2: Document RWF_ATOMIC flag

[Bart Van Assche]

On 10/4/23 01:47, John Garry wrote:
> On 03/10/2023 20:25, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > Additionally, shouldn't it be documented what value will be stored in
> > errno if the atomic write has been rejected?
>
> So I was treating all atomic writes errors which don't follow the 
> "rules" as low-level I/O errors, which is -EIO. However, yes, I can 
> document this. Further to that, based on description of an error for 
> O_DIRECT, which is to return -EINVAL for misaligned, I think that 
> -EINVAL may be better for any atomic write rule violations. OK?

That sounds good to me.

Thanks,

Bart.