Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 03 Aug 1999 00:04:46 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error
Message-ID:  <37A6867E.F85C69A8@softweyr.com>
References:  <19990731082450.7417.qmail@ns.oeno.com> <37A399C1.43B5154E@softweyr.com> <19990801105855.A67372@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> > So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the
> > man page?  This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is
> > possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev.  I think the text
> > stands as it is.
> 
> FWIW, I committed:
> 
>     [ENOBUFS]    The mbuf pool has been completely exhausted when writing to
>                  a socket

Mmmm.  Yummy.

Do we want to mention that one or more of the vectors may have been written
before the failure occurred, or is that OTTMCO?  ;^)

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
http://softweyr.com/                                           wes@softweyr.com


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?37A6867E.F85C69A8>