From: Assar <assar@permabit.com>
To: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow
Date: 14 Sep 2005 16:26:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78r7brflb0.fsf@sober-counsel.permabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432884CE.9060506@redhat.com>
Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> writes:
> One other thing -- it doesn't seem particularly correct to me to just
> silently truncate the symbolic link contents.
Sure, and 2.6 indeed returns ENAMETOOLONG. I was just trying to close
the problem and not change the functionality in 2.4. If the consensus
is that we should change it to return an error, I can certainly cook
up patches for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-14 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-12 13:26 [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow Assar
2005-09-12 18:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-12 19:37 ` Assar
2005-09-12 20:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-12 20:41 ` Assar
2005-09-12 20:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-13 18:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-13 18:52 ` Assar
2005-09-13 19:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-13 20:01 ` Assar
2005-09-14 18:55 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-14 19:41 ` Assar
2005-09-14 20:11 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-14 22:20 ` Assar
2005-09-14 22:26 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-14 20:15 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-14 20:26 ` Assar [this message]
2005-09-14 20:27 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-14 20:59 ` Assar
2005-09-13 20:36 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-13 20:55 ` Assar
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