Hello Laurent, On 12/11/2015 09:03 AM, Laurent Georget wrote: > Signed-off-by: Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@xxxxxxxxxx> Would you be willing to resubmit this with a commit message that notes how you determined that each of these errors can occur? (E.g., testing, reference to kernel source file, etc.) Thanks, Michael > Some return values are not documented in sendfile.2, this patch adds some > details. > --- > man2/sendfile.2 | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/sendfile.2 b/man2/sendfile.2 > index 93cf7e1..b56365e 100644 > --- a/man2/sendfile.2 > +++ b/man2/sendfile.2 > @@ -136,7 +136,10 @@ Bad address. > Descriptor is not valid or locked, or an > .BR mmap (2)-like > operation is not available for > -.IR in_fd . > +.IR in_fd , > +or > +.I count > +is negative. > .TP > .B EINVAL > .I out_fd > @@ -153,6 +156,20 @@ Unspecified error while reading from > .B ENOMEM > Insufficient memory to read from > .IR in_fd . > +.TP > +.B EOVERFLOW > +.I count > +is too large, the operation would result in exceeding the maximum size of either > +the input file or the output file. > +.TP > +.B EPERM > +Permissions are insufficient for reading from the input file or writing to the > +output file. > +.TP > +.B ESPIPE > +.I offset > +is not NULL but the input file is not > +.BR seek (2)-able. > .SH VERSIONS > .BR sendfile () > first appeared in Linux 2.2. > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
