From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:35:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070927143548.GT5243@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070927151921.29b19abb@the-village.bc.nu>
On Thu, Sep 27 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:01:18 -0700
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:29:19 +0100
> > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > The early LFS work that Linux uses favours EFBIG in various places.
> > > SuSv3 specifically uses EOVERFLOW for this as noted by Michael (Bug
> > > 7253)
> > isn't this an ABI change?
>
> Its a change of a specific error return from the wrong error to the right
> one, nothing more. Fixing the returned error gives us correct behaviour
> according to the standards and other systems.
It may still break applications. Waving some standard at them if they
complain is unlikely to impress them.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 13:29 [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options Alan Cox
2007-09-27 14:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-27 14:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-27 14:35 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-09-27 14:44 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-27 15:08 ` Jens Axboe
2007-09-27 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-27 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-27 15:59 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-27 17:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-27 17:59 ` Greg KH
2007-09-27 18:37 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-27 18:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-27 18:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-27 21:34 ` Greg KH
2007-09-27 21:34 ` Greg KH
2007-09-27 22:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-27 23:11 ` Greg KH
2007-09-27 23:19 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-27 23:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-27 23:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-28 2:21 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-28 3:22 ` Greg KH
2007-09-28 3:21 ` Greg KH
2007-09-28 3:21 ` Greg KH
2007-09-27 23:41 ` Jens Axboe
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