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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Peter Duellings <Peter.Duellings@wincor-nixdorf.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel error in system call accept() under kernel 2.6.8
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:32:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127230327.6276.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43301BC4.9080305@wincor-nixdorf.com>

On Maw, 2005-09-20 at 16:25 +0200, Peter Duellings wrote:
> Obviously there are some cases where the accept() system call does
> not set the errno variable if the accept() system call returns
> with a value less than zero:

Not actually possible. The kernel returns a positive value, zero or a
negative value which is the errno code negated. It has no mechanism to
return a negative value and not error.

What does strace show for the failing case ?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-20 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-20 14:25 Peter Duellings
     [not found] ` <20050920150755.GH32751@kvack.org>
2005-09-20 15:20   ` Peter Duellings
2005-09-20 15:28     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-09-20 15:32       ` Peter Duellings
2005-09-20 15:35         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-09-20 15:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-09-20 15:19   ` Peter Duellings
2005-10-05 15:41   ` Peter Duellings
2005-10-05 17:39     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-05 17:53     ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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