Open System Services System Calls Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)
errno(5) OSS System Calls Reference Manual
[EINPROGRESS]
Operation in progress. A requested operation has begun.
[EINTR] Interrupted function call. An asynchronous signal was caught by the process dur-
ing the execution of an interruptible function.
[EINVAL] Invalid function parameter. One of the following conditions exists:
• The program supplied an invalid parameter value.
• The system does not support execution of a new program file in the
binary format used by a specified program file.
[EIO] I/O error. Some physical input or output error has occurred due to one of the fol-
lowing conditions:
• A file cannot be opened because of an input or output error.
• Data has been lost during an input or output transfer.
• A file cannot be accessed when creating or unlinking a file on an SMF
logical volume and the SMF Virtual Disk Process encountered an error.
• The process is in a background process group and the controlling tty is
either ignoring or blocking SIGTTIN, or the process group is orphaned.
• A Guardian error has occurred, such as error 66 (FEDEVDOWN) or
error 201 (FEPATHDOWN) during a read or write.
• The OSS NS encountered unexpected read/write errors to fileset catalogs
when communicating with other processes like DP2, pipe servers, and
local socket servers.
[EISCONN] Socket is connected. The program attempted to use a socket that is already in
use.
[EISDIR] Is a directory. The program attempted to open an OSS directory with open()
function write mode specified, or a directory in /G with any mode specified.
[EISGUARDIAN]
OSS operation on Guardian file descriptor. The program attempted an OSS
operation involving a Guardian file descriptor.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links. The program found too many symbolic links during
pathname resolution.
[EMFILE] Maximum number of files open. The program attempted to open more than the
maximum number of file descriptors allowed in this process.
[EMLINK] Too many links. An attempt was made to have the link count of a single file
exceed allowed system limits.
[EMSGQNOTRUNNING]
The OSS message-queue server for the requested message queue is not currently
running.
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