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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-08-11 16:50:27 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-08-11 16:50:27 +0000
commit8f0370394306356488cffa83b9a1e2de8282b759 (patch)
tree7186f56de41c499cc64f5d534cfd4391bc1a62a4 /lib/libc/sys
parent3cfd383099155c2935a9cfb41d009dcbbb0727bc (diff)
Sync limits described by EFBIG and ELOOP with current reality; from NetBSD.
miod@ ok
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/intro.28
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/intro.2 b/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
index b77a43c3872..a16452d5487 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: intro.2,v 1.24 2002/06/16 04:40:42 todd Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: intro.2,v 1.25 2002/08/11 16:50:26 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: intro.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:33:41 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993
@@ -187,7 +187,9 @@ while the pure procedure file was being executed an
.Xr open 2
call requested write access.
.It Er 27 EFBIG Em "File too large" .
-The size of a file exceeded the maximum (about 2.1E9 bytes).
+The size of a file exceeded the maximum.
+(The system-wide maximum file size is 2**63 bytes.
+Each file system may impose a lower limit for files contained within it.)
.It Er 28 ENOSPC Em "Device out of space" .
A
.Xr write 2
@@ -327,7 +329,7 @@ refused it.
This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is
inactive on the foreign host.
.It Er 62 ELOOP Em "Too many levels of symbolic links" .
-A path name lookup involved more than 8 symbolic links.
+A path name lookup involved more than 32 symbolic links.
.It Er 63 ENAMETOOLONG Em "File name too long" .
A component of a path name exceeded 255
.Pq Dv MAXNAMELEN