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Subject:    [musl] Re: [PATCH v3] posix_fallocate.3: add EOPNOTSUPP error code.
From:       "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-10-27 7:02:31
Message-ID: 7f4ad844-7552-64e4-0206-432f2bc938f6 () gmail ! com
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Hello Éric,

On 10/27/20 12:21 AM, Érico Rolim wrote:
> As can be seen in
> 
> https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/fcntl/posix_fallocate.c?id=73cc775bee53300c7cf759f37580220b18ac13d3
>  
> musl libc returns the syscall's errors directly, which means it doesn't
> perform the same emulation as glibc, and can return EOPNOTSUPP to an
> application, which isnt't listed in ERRORS.

Thanks. Patch applied.

(By the way, your mailer is wrapping text in the patch;
I manually fixed.)

Thanks,

Michael

> ---
> 
> Made a small correction to the formatting for fd.
> 
> man3/posix_fallocate.3 | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/posix_fallocate.3 b/man3/posix_fallocate.3
> index 3152dd54f..8ea37261a 100644
> --- a/man3/posix_fallocate.3
> +++ b/man3/posix_fallocate.3
> @@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ There is not enough space left on the device
> containing the file
> referred to by
> .IR fd .
> .TP
> +.B EOPNOTSUPP
> +The filesystem containing the file referred to by
> +.I fd
> +does not support this operation.
> +This error code can be returned by libc's that don't perform the
> +emulation shown in NOTES, such as musl libc.
> +.TP
> .B ESPIPE
> .I fd
> refers to a pipe.
> 


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Michael Kerrisk
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