Sco server 5.05 error 5 (I/O error) when listing files.

[butchrecon]

Can anyone tell me what an error 5 is when trying to do an ls of ls of files. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

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[pcunix]

From

http://pcunix.com/Unixart/errors.html

:

* #define EIO 5 /* I/O error */


The catchall for all manner of unexpected hardware errors. It could be from a physical error, but additionally, an orphaned process (a process whose parent has died) that attempts to read from standard input will get this. BSD systems return this if you try to open a pty device that is already in use. An attempt to read from a stream that is closed will return EIO, as will a disk read or write that is outside of the physical bounds of the device. An open of /dev/tty when the process has no controlling tty will spit back EIO also.
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com