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From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre6] truncate(2) permissions
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:06:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001207170656.A23858@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012071007420.970-100000@penguin.homenet> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012070709400.20144-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012070709400.20144-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:23:59AM -0500

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:23:59AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:

> <looking at the truncate(2) manpage>
> Oh, lovely - where the hell had the following come from?
> % man truncate
> ...
>        EINVAL The  pathname  contains  a character with the high-
>               order bit set.
> ...
> Andries, would you mind removing that, erm, statement? I'm curious about
> its genesis - AFAIK we had 8bit-clean namei for ages (quite possibly since
> 0.01).

I removed it in man-pages-1.30.
Apparently you have an older version.
(1.31 has been released; expect 1.32 soon)

Andries
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-07 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-06  9:11 [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre6] truncate(2) permissions Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-06  9:44 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-06 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-06 22:38   ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-07 10:18     ` [patch] " Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-07 10:53       ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-07 13:23       ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-07 13:48         ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-07 15:03         ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-07 15:24           ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-07 16:16             ` Andries Brouwer
2000-12-07 22:15               ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-07 16:06         ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-08  2:35 Andries.Brouwer
2000-12-08  2:59 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-08 11:25   ` Marko Kreen

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