looking for error codes

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Apr 1 14:58:33 UTC 2011


On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> 
> I am looking for error codes that would unambiguously signal that a disk drive has
> readonly or write-protected media and that disk drive has no media at the moment.
> I foresee these error codes being used mostly between disk peripheral drivers and
> filesystem drivers.
> 
> I will appreciate your suggestions.
> 
> P.S.
> I see that Linux uses EROFS and ENOMEDIUM for these purposes.
> I am not sure about EROFS in this role.
> And we don't have ENOMEDIUM (nor EMEDIUMTYPE).

Maybe we could add ENOMEDIA for that (spelled however Linux spells it) after EDAVE.

Warner




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