Re: [LTP] [PATCH] readlink03: fix expected errno for kernel >=3.2

[Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>]

On 03/14/2012 09:57 PM, Jan Stancek wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Wanlong Gao" <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> To: "Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>
>> Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net, "Jeffrey Burke" <jburke@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:50:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] readlink03: fix expected errno for kernel >=3.2
>>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>>>
>>> This kernel commit restored original behavior:
>>> commit 1fa1e7f615f4d3ae436fa319af6e4eebdd4026a8
>>> Author: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
>>> Date:   Wed Nov 2 09:44:39 2011 +0100
>>>     readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for
>>> normal lookups
>>>
>>> For kernel >= 3.2, ENOENT should be expected errno code.
>>
>>
>> I had posted a patch long time ago, you can see here
>> http://marc.info/?l=ltp-list&m=132063831228321&w=2
>>
>> This is a kernel bug, and already fixed in 3.0 and 3.1
>> stable tree, so, just test the kernel version like this
>> is not the best method.
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> Agreed, version check doesn't make much sense.
> 
> I think if this patch was important enough to be backported to stable
> trees, we can be sure it's a bug and we can drop that version
> check entirely - which is what your patch does.


Yeah, so let me resend it with your Ack.

Thanks,
Wanlong Gao

> 
> Regards,
> Jan
> 
> 



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