Re: [RFC PATCH manpages] write.2, fsync.2, close.2: update description of error codes

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On Thu, Sep 14 2017, walter harms wrote:

> Am 14.09.2017 01:50, schrieb NeilBrown:
>> 
>> Since 4.13, errors from writeback are more reliably reported
>> to all file descriptors that might be relevant.
>> 
>> Add notes to this effect, and also add details about ENOSPC and EDQUOT
>> which can be delayed in a similar manner to EIO - for NFS in particular.
>> 
>
> I never read EDQUOT  before but it is real:
>
> see:
> http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/security/keys/request_key.c
>
> -EDQUOT
>  * if insufficient key quota was available to create a new key

EDQUOT existed long before security keys.
It's original purpose is to report Disk QUOTa problems.  If you write to
a file and you have exhausted you quota, you get EDQUOT.

http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/fs/quota/dquot.c#L1318

NeilBrown

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