add an explanatory comment about the error codes

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Nick Mathewson
2017-11-21 12:36:32 -05:00
parent c8ee12b2e8
commit ea13a47791
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@@ -539,6 +539,10 @@ consensus_cache_rescan(consensus_cache_t *cache)
map = storage_dir_map_labeled(cache->dir, fname,
&labels, &body, &bodylen);
if (! map) {
/* The ERANGE error might come from tor_mmap_file() -- it means the file
* was empty. EINVAL might come from ..map_labeled() -- it means the
* file was misformatted. In both cases, we should just delete it.
*/
if (errno == ERANGE || errno == EINVAL) {
log_warn(LD_FS, "Found %s file %s in consensus cache; removing it.",
errno == ERANGE ? "empty" : "misformatted",