On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 11:42, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> You write:
> | When I/O failure occurs, there should be some standards which
> | define the ONLY error that should be returned from VFS, right?
>
> In practice there is no standard and there never will be any standard.
> In general the only thing code can do on any write error is to abort
> the operation, regardless of what errno is. (The exceptions are for
> things like nonblocking IO, where 'EAGAIN' and 'EWOULDBLOCK' are not
> real errors.)
Yes, we're sure to abort the operation, but we can't use
exit(EXIT_FAILURE) directly. For HA environment, we should
identify the cause of the error, take correspondent action,
right? So we need to get the right error.
> ---
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regards,
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