errno question

Mike Wescott wescott at sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM
Thu Dec 15 01:48:18 AEST 1988


In article <704 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
> >EDEADLK specifies a kernel deadlock condition; EDEADLOCK specifies
> >a file locking deadlock.
> 
> Err, umm, the only place I could find EDEADLK used in the S5R3 or S5R3.1
> kernel is in the file-locking code ... used to indicate ... a file locking
> deadlock, and I couldn't find *any* uses of EDEADLOCK.

The S5R3.2 sys/errno.h shows:

#define	EDEADLK	45	/* Deadlock condition.			*/

/* Convergent Error Returns */
#define EDEADLOCK 56	/* file locking deadlock error		*/

And the corresponding man page only talks about EDEADLK being related
to file locking.  EDEADLOCK is not mentioned.  I would guess that EDEADLOCK
is cruft left around from a Convergent port.
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	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM



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