https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108951 Bug ID: 108951 Summary: stat(2) missing mention of EIO Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: nyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Regression: No I suppose that stat(2) can return EIO error if it has an error reading the inode or one of the paths' parents. The Posix stat() manual page (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/stat.html) mentions this possibility. However, the Linux stat(2) manual page is missing this possible error. By the way, it seems there are more system call man pages (e.g., open(2)) who are missing mention of EIO. Most other system call man pages I looked at do correctly mention EIO. But perhaps a more extensive exploration of all the system calls needs to be conducted. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
