Re: [PATCH 2/9] generic/294, afs: Allow for mknod subtest failing if mknod not supported

David Howells
2021-06-01T14:31:59Z

Eryu Guan <guan@eryu.me> wrote:

> _require_mknod checks for mknod support by trying to mknod and _notrun
> the test if mknod fails.
>
> So does afs return any failure like EOPNOTSUPP? If so I think we could
> refactor _require_mknod into something like

afs doesn't provide a ->mknod implementation as it doesn't support anything
you'd create with it, so you get the VFS default in such an instance - which
would be EPERM.

David