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From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour on HP9000/825
Keywords: errno 25 cc errors
Message-ID: <3236@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 17:54:37 GMT
References: <227@innovus.UUCP>
Reply-To: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas
Lines: 15

In article <227@innovus.UUCP> martin@innovus.UUCP (Martin Renters) writes:
>
>We just found some rather strange behaviour on our 9000/825 running
>HP-UX 3.0.  Seems we get an errno 25 (not a typewriter) on the first
>I/O we do on any newly opened file, although the I/O is actually carried
>out. Any subsequent I/Os work fine, without error. Both HFS and NFS
>filesystems seem to have this problem.

It is my understanding that errno is only checked when you have an
error, not to indicate that one occured. If no error from the function
call is returned, then the value of errno is meaningless.

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Jack 		Computer Support Corportion		Dallas,Texas 
Hudler		UUCP: {texsun,texbell,attctc}!csccat!jack