On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, William A.(Andy) Adamson wrote:
> hi.
>
> from man fcntl
>
> EACCES or EAGAIN
> Operation is prohibited by locks held by other processes. Or,
> operation is prohibited because the file has been memory-mapped
> by another process.
>
> a process with file open for writing is essentially holding a lock WRT
> allowing a read lease, so i think EAGAIN is the appropriate error.
>
>
its not prohibited in this case by another process...
> again from man fcntl
>
> EINVAL For F_DUPFD, arg is negative or is greater than the maximum
> allowable value. For F_SETSIG, arg is not an allowable signal
> number.
>
> the arguments to the fcntl setlease call are correct, not invalid, so this is
> the wrong error.
>
> -->Andy
does EBADF make more sense then?
from the manpage:
EBADF
fd is not an open file descriptor, or the command was F_SETLK or
F_SETLKW and the file descriptor open mode doesnâ??t match with the
type of lock requested.
-Jason
