[RFC] [PATCH] Make lio_listio set errno to EIO on requests with invalid aio_lio_opcode

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Tue Feb 21 20:47:00 GMT 2006


> If the opcode is not supported then that I/O operation should fail. For 
> those requests, since we know that I/O operation has failed, even before 
> enqueuing a request, shouldn't lio_listio() return EIO ?

There is no obligation for lio_listio "know" by the time that it returns
that an operation has failed, unless you use LIO_WAIT.  



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