Re: [PATCH] read/write: documentation of limits v3

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please add a small history for your changes between version
like in this example:

V2->V3: forget comment
V1->V2: fix typo

hope that helps,

re,
 wh

Am 06.05.2019 15:06, schrieb Shawn Landden:
> Looks like PAGE_MASK is in <sys/user.h>
> ---
>  man2/read.2  | 8 ++++++++
>  man2/write.2 | 8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/read.2 b/man2/read.2
> index 6e5123fa4..1ca696af9 100644
> --- a/man2/read.2
> +++ b/man2/read.2
> @@ -151,10 +151,18 @@ and the wrong size buffer was given to
>  .BR read ();
>  see
>  .BR timerfd_create (2)
>  for further information.
>  .TP
> +.B EINVAL
> +.\" MAX_RW_COUNT in include/linux/fs.h
> +The read amount is greater than
> +.B MAX_RW_COUNT,
> +which is
> +.B INT_MAX
> +rounded down to the page size (INT_MAX & ~PAGE_MASK).
> +.TP
>  .B EIO
>  I/O error.
>  This will happen for example when the process is in a
>  background process group, tries to read from its controlling terminal,
>  and either it is ignoring or blocking
> diff --git a/man2/write.2 b/man2/write.2
> index 4df56cd48..1cdf04436 100644
> --- a/man2/write.2
> +++ b/man2/write.2
> @@ -190,10 +190,18 @@ flag, and either the address specified in
>  .IR buf ,
>  the value specified in
>  .IR count ,
>  or the file offset is not suitably aligned.
>  .TP
> +.B EINVAL
> +.\" MAX_RW_COUNT in include/linux/fs.h
> +The write amount is greater than
> +.B MAX_RW_COUNT,
> +which is
> +.B INT_MAX
> +rounded down to the page size (INT_MAX & ~PAGE_MASK).
> +.TP
>  .B EIO
>  A low-level I/O error occurred while modifying the inode.
>  This error may relate to the write-back of data written by an earlier
>  .BR write (2),
>  which may have been issued to a different file descriptor on



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