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Date:      Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:13:01 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Toolchain <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r325320 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs [breaks lld on zfs: lld uses fallocate]
Message-ID:  <9D762BA9-D957-4413-98E1-E4410BA20112@dsl-only.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2DYXvW%2BNo4kvaqGHFSPU7iH71suGCpvNgb3DPGScgUa_g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2017-Nov-4, at 4:58 AM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 4 November 2017 at 07:41, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 04/11/2017 12:32, Mark Millard wrote:
>>>  if (int Err =3D ::posix_fallocate(FD, 0, Size)) {
>>>    if (Err !=3D EOPNOTSUPP)
>>>      return std::error_code(Err, std::generic_category());
>>>  }
>>=20
>> The commit message that you didn't include into your reply contains =
some useful
>> information that authors / maintainers of this code should probably =
take into
>> account:
>>=20
>>>  Please note that EINVAL is used to report that the underlying file =
system
>>>  does not support the operation (POSIX.1-2008).
>>=20
>> Here is a link for that:
>> =
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/posix_fallocate.=
html
>=20
> I have no idea how they decided EINVAL was a reasonable errno for this =
case.

I think they viewed it as a bad fd argument: a reference
into a wrong file system, much like a wrong len (<0) or
offset (<0).

That there is no other means of run-time classifying the
file system(s)(?) was not viewed as sufficient reason
to give it a different classification.

But it is just a guess.

=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net




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