Question on continuous EIOs in CIFS protocol

[sandeep nag]

Sure,

We have written a samba server VFS plugin and I am returning an error EIO
from the plugin when there is a interrupt to smbd, while reading the data
from the socket in the plugin, data was sent by the windows client write()
operation.

Now my questions is;
On seeing EIO in the response, what does CIFS protocol on window client do?
does it retry to do write operation? if so how many times does it try?
after certain number of times does it stop to try and returns an error
message to the appliciation?

Thanks in advance, if it is not clear, I can send the code snippet.

Thanks,
Sandeep

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:23:23AM +0530, sandeep nag wrote:
> > There is a scenario in the code, when there are continuous interrupts due
> > to networks issues I am returning an EIO. Now I would like to know, what
> > if, there are continuous EIOs from the samba server? What does windows
> > client do when it sees continuous EIOs from server.
>
> More details please. Not enough info here to help.
>