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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:11:05 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "cem@FreeBSD.org" <cem@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r297201 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/filemon
Message-ID:  <D2476F6F-8C58-489D-9654-DFF2AEB9941F@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpUxC6Nov7ocy5eEpcQFLd%2BQdXUxZWs49kTesWZo_VqncQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Mar 22, 2016, at 17:41, Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wro=
te:
>> Author: bdrewery
>> Date: Tue Mar 22 22:41:07 2016
>> New Revision: 297201
>> ...
>> --- head/share/man/man4/filemon.4       Tue Mar 22 22:41:03 2016        (=
r297200)
>> +++ head/share/man/man4/filemon.4       Tue Mar 22 22:41:07 2016        (=
r297201)
>> @@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ No process having the specified process
>> The process ID specified is already being traced and was not the current
>> process.
>> .El
>> +.Pp
>> +The
>> +.Fn close
>> +system call on the filemon file descriptor may fail with the errors from=

>> +.Xr write 2
>> +if any error is encountered while writing the log.
>> .Sh FILES
>> .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/filemon"
>> .It Pa /dev/filemon
>=20
> Shouldn't this be documented in the close(2) manual page instead?  (I
> believe it is generally true for many kinds of fd where errors can
> occur between write and close.)  I thought close.2 would have a blurb
> like this and I see it doesn't in recent CURRENT.
>=20
>=20

The manpage for close(2) does document some errors, one being ENOSPC.  The c=
lose(2) behavior of returning write(2), really VOP_WRITE(9), errors though i=
s specific to filemon since all of the writes are hidden and this is the onl=
y place to return an error.  I have a review open to resolve a similar issue=
 in alq(9) as well since all of the writes are asynchronous and there's no A=
PI to retrieve any error from.

Bryan=



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