On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:48:20AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:

.BI "int syscall(int, int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);

Correction: "int syscall(int fd, int mode, ...)",

.SH "ERRORS"
.TP
.B EBADF
.I fd
is not a valid file descriptor, or is not opened for writing.
.TP
.B EFBIG
.I offset+len
exceeds the maximum file size.
.TP
.B EINVAL
.I offset
or
.I len
was less than 0.
.TP
.B ENODEV
.I fd
does not refer to a regular file or a directory.
.TP
.B ENOSPC
There is not enough space left on the device containing the file
referred to by
.IR fd.
.TP
.B ESPIPE
.I fd
refers to a pipe of file descriptor.
.B ENOSYS
The filesystem underlying the file descriptor does not support this
operation.

EINTR?

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