Erik Faye-Lund <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Rast <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Eric Chamberland <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> Other than that I agree with Junio, from what we've seen so far, Lustre
>> returns EINTR on all sorts of calls that simply aren't allowed to do so.
>
> I don't think this analysis is 100% accurate, POSIX allows error codes
> to be generated other than those defined. From
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_03.html:
>
> "Implementations may support additional errors not included in this
> list, *may generate errors included in this list under circumstances
> other than those described here*, or may contain extensions or
> limitations that prevent some errors from occurring."
That same page says, however:
For functions under the Threads option for which [EINTR] is not listed
as a possible error condition in this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001,
an implementation shall not return an error code of [EINTR].
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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