On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:32:26 -0400 Milosz Tanski <milosz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > +.BR pwritev2 () > can also fail for the same reasons as > .BR lseek (2). > -Additionally, the following error is defined: > +Additionally, the following errors are defined: > +.TP > +.B EAGAIN > +The operation would block. This is possible if the file descriptor \fIfd\fP refers to a socket and has been marked nonblocking > +.RB ( O_NONBLOCK ), > +or the operation is a > +.BR preadv2 > +and the \fIflags\fP argument is set to > +.BR RWF_NONBLOCK. Can you please expand on this to describe the circumstances in which pread2() returns -EAGAIN? Let's fix up the short-read confusion. And let's have a think about EAGAIN vs EWOULDBLOCK. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
