linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aio: partial write should not return error code.

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Message-ID: <477E78A5.2040404@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:19:17 -0800
From:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	bcrl@...ck.org, linux-aio@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: partial write should not return error code.


> 
> No, that's fine, here is the new one:
> 
> When an AIO write gets a non-retry error after writing some data
> (eg. ENOSPC), it should return the amount written already, not the
> error.  Just like write() is supposed to.
> 
> This was found by the libaio test suite.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

This looks good, feel free to push this from your tree.

Acked-By: Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>

- z
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