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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:12:07 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: M_SHORTWAIT, the md driver and errno 
Message-ID:  <43818.1011165127@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:29:50 EST." <20020116012950.C7831@spirit.jaded.net> 

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In message <20020116012950.C7831@spirit.jaded.net>, Dan Moschuk writes:
>
>I'm fixing up the md driver to use the M_SHORTWAIT flag when allocating
>memory.  In the event that our request times out, what errno should the
>driver return?

Good question, I guess EIO is the "make sure not to break anything"
choice, but obviously ENOMEM would make more sense.

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