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To: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: M_SHORTWAIT, the md driver and errno 
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In message <20020116012950.C7831@spirit.jaded.net>, Dan Moschuk writes:
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>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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