Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-02 Thread Wes Peters
Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the > > man page? This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is > > possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev.

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-02 Thread Wes Peters
Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the > > man page? This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is > > possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-01 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the > man page? This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is > possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev. I think the text > stands as

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-01 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the > man page? This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is > possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev. I think the text > stands a

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-01 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
> > > :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete > > > the op- > > > :>eration. > > > : > > > :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > > > :under? > > > > So you can get ENOBUFS not related to mbufs for UDP/local data

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-01 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
> > > :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- > > > :>eration. > > > : > > > :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > > > :under? > > > > So you can get ENOBUFS not related to mbufs for UDP/local datagram >

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-31 Thread Wes Peters
Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > > :w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: > > : > > :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete > > the op- > > :>eration. > > : > > :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > > :under? >

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-31 Thread Wes Peters
Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > > :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes Peters) writes: > > : > > :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- > > :>eration. > > : > > :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > > :under? > > S

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-31 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
> :w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: > : > :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the > op- > :>eration. > : > :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > :under? > : > :If it happened with files, that would be a

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-31 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
> :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes Peters) writes: > : > :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- > :>eration. > : > :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > :under? > : > :If it happened with files, that would be a b

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: : :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- :>eration. : :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs :under? : :If it happened with files, that would be a bug and should be f

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Wes Peters
Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: > > > [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the > > op- > >eration. > > Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > under? > > If it happened wit

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes Peters) writes: : :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- :>eration. : :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs :under? : :If it happened with files, that would be a bug and should be f

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Wes Peters
Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes Peters) writes: > > > [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- > >eration. > > Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > under? > > If it happened with fi

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: > [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- >eration. Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs under? If it happened with files, that would be a bug and should be fixed. The

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes Peters) writes: > [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- >eration. Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs under? If it happened with files, that would be a bug and should be fixed. The

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-29 Thread Wes Peters
Nik Clayton wrote: > > -hackers, > > Could someone who knows write/writev(2) take a quick look at docs/10512. > > In essence, writev(2) can fail with ENOBUFS if (and I quote from the PR) > if you "exhaust writev'able buffer space". This doesn't mean a great > deal to me, and I'm hoping one of y

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-29 Thread Wes Peters
Nik Clayton wrote: > > -hackers, > > Could someone who knows write/writev(2) take a quick look at docs/10512. > > In essence, writev(2) can fail with ENOBUFS if (and I quote from the PR) > if you "exhaust writev'able buffer space". This doesn't mean a great > deal to me, and I'm hoping one of