Re: reiser4 problem with pam_mktemp

[michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>]

On 8/11/05, sergey ivanov <seriv@parkheights.dyndns.org> wrote:
> I have not succeeded with integrating reiser4 & pam_mktemp.
> From one side I recompiled kernel with reiser4 patches modified to
> return ENOTTY for attempt to deal with attributes, as tmpfs does.
> Pam_mktemp does not work after this. So I returned to the kernel with
> original Namesys' patches.

> # strace -o su.log -fF su - seriv

> 1993  mkdir("/tmp/.private", 0711)      = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> 1993  lstat64("/tmp/.private", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0711, st_size=7, ...}) = 0
> 1993  open("/tmp/.private", O_RDONLY)   = 3
> 1993  ioctl(3, EXT2_IOC_GETFLAGS, 0xbf9e37f8) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)

> So it looks like reiser4 tries to be good and answer to ioctl
> getting/setting attributes "EEXIST" and "EISDIR",
> and not return error "ENOTTY".

This seems kind of confusing -- the problem with the idea that all
files are files and directories... do we really want to be returning
that it's a directory here?  My guess is that this is the confusing
bit about this filesystem.  AFAIK, this is probably confusing the PAM
code or whatever.  *shrugs*

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~Mike
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