Subject: Re: kern/12187: nfs_timer: ignoring error 55- what's it for and why does it whine so? (fwd)
To: Rafal Boni <rafal@mediaone.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 04/08/2001 15:35:55
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:28:46PM -0400, Rafal Boni wrote:
> In message <20010407115601.B1026@antioche.eu.org>, you write: 
> 
> -> This is an error number defined in sys/errno.h, e.g.:
> -> rochebonne#/usr/src/1.5S/src/usr.bin/make>grep 55 /usr/include/sys/errno.h 
> -> #define ENOBUFS         55              /* No buffer space available */
> -> rochebonne#/usr/src/1.5S/src/usr.bin/make>grep 48 /usr/include/sys/errno.h
> -> #define EADDRINUSE      48              /* Address already in use */
> 
> Thanks for the hint, Manuel, but that part I had actually figured out... The
> part stumping me was: (1) why am I getting this, (2) why was it decided that
> this was nonfatal when the error keeps coming back over and over again until
> I reboot the box 8-)

I think the NFS code shouldn't get back EADDRINUSE from the network layer.
This means there's a problem somewhere, maybe out of the NFS code.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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