From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NFSERR_EAGAIN
Date: 11 Jul 2003 00:41:13 +0200
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>>>>> " " == Danny Smith <dannys@cinesite.co.uk> writes:

     > Looking through nfs2xdr.c and nfs.h and googling, it seems that
     > error number 11 is not properly defined, but certainly seems to
     > be in use by SGI. From nfs2xdr.c:

     >      { NFSERR_NXIO, ENXIO },

     > /* { NFSERR_EAGAIN, EAGAIN }, */
     >       { NFSERR_ACCES, EACCES },

     > (EAGAIN having value 11)

     > Does anyone know much about the history of this? Was this
     > removed in order to be RFC compliant, or is there a stronger
     > motivation not to have this?

Why should we be supporting something which isn't documented in the RFCs?

What is this error anyway? Is it some SGI hack for emulating
NFS3ERR_JUKEBOX under NFSv2?

Cheers,
  Trond


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