From edf6db4a45a7b3258369f612bb9ec60e95ac2315 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Cox Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:47:35 -0700 Subject: move ShortWrite error into io so that other packages can use it. R=r DELTA=15 (7 added, 1 deleted, 7 changed) OCL=28996 CL=28996 --- src/lib/io/io.go | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'src/lib/io/io.go') diff --git a/src/lib/io/io.go b/src/lib/io/io.go index b28359359..70c82d562 100644 --- a/src/lib/io/io.go +++ b/src/lib/io/io.go @@ -13,12 +13,19 @@ import ( "os"; ) -// ErrEOF is the error returned by FullRead and Copyn when they encounter EOF. +// Error represents an unexpected I/O behavior. type Error struct { os.ErrorString } + +// ErrEOF means that data was expected, but a read got EOF instead. var ErrEOF os.Error = &Error{"EOF"} +// ErrShortWrite means that a write accepted fewer bytes than requested +// but failed to return an explicit error. +var ErrShortWrite os.Error = &Error{"short write"} + + // Reader is the interface that wraps the basic Read method. type Reader interface { Read(p []byte) (n int, err os.Error); -- cgit v1.2.3