From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clone ioctl return values
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:33:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151117153320.GU22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151117152251.GA5392@infradead.org>
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 07:22:52AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Yes, I saw that. So so far I'd suggest something like the following
> for btrfs:
>
> - return EBADFD for missing read/wite permissions
Yowwwch... What the hell does that have to do with STREAMS? Or are you
using EBADFD as "nobody uses that error value anyway, let's assign it
whatever meaning we need"?
Besides, that'll be confused with EBADF all the time. I strongly
recommend against that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-17 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-16 12:04 clone ioctl return values Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-17 0:28 ` Darrick J. Wong
2015-11-17 10:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-17 13:57 ` Chris Mason
2015-11-17 15:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-17 15:33 ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-11-17 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-17 18:42 ` Chris Mason
2015-11-18 3:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2015-11-18 15:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-17 15:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
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