Re: [patch] s_maxbytes handling

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Tue, 22 May 2001 21:33:23 +0200 (MET DST)


Linus writes:

0 is EOF _for_reads_. For writes it is not very well defined

Hmm.

So -EFBIG is certainly the preferable return value,

Yes. The Austin 6th draft writes

EFBIG:
An attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the implementation-defined
maximum file size or the process' file size limit, and there was no room for
any bytes to be written.

Andries
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