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Asked: 2026-05-24T11:38:01+00:00

Just curious. Which systems providing both EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK #define them as different values?

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Just curious. Which systems providing both EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK #define them as different values?

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    There were some… http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Error-Codes.html

    Portability Note: In many older Unix systems, this condition was indicated by EWOULDBLOCK, which was a distinct error code different from EAGAIN. To make your program portable, you should check for both codes and treat them the same.

    http://lists.parisc-linux.org/hypermail/parisc-linux/9895.html

    On some SysV systems EAGAIN != EWOULDBLOCK. I think we inherited the
    errno definitions from HPUX…

    Older AIX is such system too: http://programming.itags.org/unix-linux-programming/81597/

    HP-UX (and older versions of AIX)

    For AIX I found the list of codes: http://homepage3.nifty.com/owl_h0h0/unix/job/UNIX/tutorial/error.html

    11 EAGAIN;
    54 EWOULDBLOCK

    OS/390 too: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/zvbaIz8u6TzsQHHjfzOi

    OS/390 and other platforms where EWOULDBLOCK != EAGAIN

    There is fuller table: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/errcmp.html

            SUSv3   AIX 4.3,5.1 HP-UX 11.22 Solaris 9,10    Linux 2.4.28,2.6.9  IRIX 6.5[4] OSF1    FreeBSD 5.2.1   OSX 10.3.8  MSVC6
EAGAIN  1   0   Resource unavailable, try again [3] 11  Resource temporarily unavailable    11  No more processes   11  Resource temporarily unavailable    11  Try again   11  Resource temporarily unavailable    11  ditto   35  Resource temporarily unavailable    35  Resource temporarily unavailable    11  Resource temporarily unavailable

EWOULDBLOCK 0.9 0   Operation would block [3]   54  Operation would block [2]   246 Operation would block   11      11  Operation would block   11  Resource temporarily unavailable    35  Operation would block   35  Operation would block   35  Operation would block

    So, AIX 4.3,5.1; HP-UX 11.22 and OSF1 uses different codes for EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK

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