+2005-11-15 Robert Millan <robertmh@gnu.org>
+
+ [BZ #2161]
+ * manual/llio.texi (read, write): Document EINVAL on unaligned access.
+
2006-02-21 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
* sysdeps/i386/i686/memset.S: Fix treatment of unaligned pointer.
the signal is being blocked or ignored, or because the process group is
orphaned. @xref{Job Control}, for more information about job control,
and @ref{Signal Handling}, for information about signals.
+
+@item EINVAL
+In some systems, when reading from a character or block device, position
+and size offsets must be aligned to a particular block size. This error
+indicates that the offsets were not properly aligned.
@end table
Please note that there is no function named @code{read64}. This is not
This error is returned when you try to write to a pipe or FIFO that
isn't open for reading by any process. When this happens, a @code{SIGPIPE}
signal is also sent to the process; see @ref{Signal Handling}.
+
+@item EINVAL
+In some systems, when writing to a character or block device, position
+and size offsets must be aligned to a particular block size. This error
+indicates that the offsets were not properly aligned.
@end table
Unless you have arranged to prevent @code{EINTR} failures, you should