Re: [PATCH 2.5.71-mm1] aio process hang on EINVAL

John Myers (jgmyers@netscape.com)
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:03:36 -0700


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Daniel McNeil wrote:

>I prefer getting the error on io_submit.
>
>
I prefer getting the error on io_getevents(). The code that handles the
output of io_getevents() already has to handle per-operation errors.
The only thing user space can reasonably do with errors returned by
io_submit() is to retry or assert. Anything else would duplicate logic
that already has to be in and is better handled by the code that handles
the output io_getevents().

io_submit() should only return errors in cases where the caller is
obviously buggy/malicious or in cases where it is not possible to
generate an event.

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