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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 2006-02-22 02:55:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 2006-02-22 02:55:10 +0000 |
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[BZ #2161]
2005-11-15 Robert Millan <robertmh@gnu.org> [BZ #2161] * manual/llio.texi (read, write): Document EINVAL on unaligned access.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e9562d4846..70abaed584 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-11-15 Robert Millan <robertmh@gnu.org> + + [BZ #2161] + * manual/llio.texi (read, write): Document EINVAL on unaligned access. + 2006-02-21 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> * sysdeps/i386/i686/memset.S: Fix treatment of unaligned pointer. diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi index 863b3b4316..1d088d8ee2 100644 --- a/manual/llio.texi +++ b/manual/llio.texi @@ -368,6 +368,11 @@ sending it a @code{SIGTTIN} signal isn't working. This might happen if the signal is being blocked or ignored, or because the process group is orphaned. @xref{Job Control}, for more information about job control, and @ref{Signal Handling}, for information about signals. + +@item EINVAL +In some systems, when reading from a character or block device, position +and size offsets must be aligned to a particular block size. This error +indicates that the offsets were not properly aligned. @end table Please note that there is no function named @code{read64}. This is not @@ -515,6 +520,11 @@ The device containing the file is full. This error is returned when you try to write to a pipe or FIFO that isn't open for reading by any process. When this happens, a @code{SIGPIPE} signal is also sent to the process; see @ref{Signal Handling}. + +@item EINVAL +In some systems, when writing to a character or block device, position +and size offsets must be aligned to a particular block size. This error +indicates that the offsets were not properly aligned. @end table Unless you have arranged to prevent @code{EINTR} failures, you should |