From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] readdir mess
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:45:02 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87proe81c1.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808121009370.3462@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:18:49 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> As to -EOVERFLOW, I suspect we are better off just dropping that whole
> logic. Returning -EOVERFLOW and truncating the readdir listing is likely
> much worse than the alternative. It made sense back when we needed to get
> people to upgrade the system interfaces, now it just means that old
> binaries won't work at all.
However, there are some similar stuff: ->st_size, ->st_nlink and
->st_ino in stat() (cp_old_stat()). Maybe EOVERFLOW is the reason for
consistency...
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-12 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-12 6:22 [RFC] readdir mess Al Viro
2008-08-12 17:02 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-12 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-12 18:10 ` Al Viro
2008-08-12 18:22 ` Al Viro
2008-08-12 18:37 ` Al Viro
2008-08-12 19:24 ` Al Viro
2008-08-12 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-12 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-12 20:38 ` Al Viro
2008-08-12 21:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-13 0:04 ` Al Viro
2008-08-13 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-13 1:19 ` Al Viro
2008-08-13 1:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-13 8:36 ` Brad Boyer
2008-08-13 16:19 ` Al Viro
2008-08-15 5:06 ` Jan Harkes
2008-08-15 5:34 ` Al Viro
2008-08-15 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-24 10:10 ` Al Viro
2008-08-24 11:03 ` Al Viro
2008-08-25 16:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-24 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-24 19:59 ` Al Viro
2008-08-24 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-25 1:33 ` Al Viro
2008-08-25 1:44 ` Al Viro
2008-08-12 19:45 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2008-08-12 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-12 20:59 ` Al Viro
2008-08-12 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-12 21:54 ` Al Viro
2008-08-12 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-13 16:20 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-12 21:47 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-12 22:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-12 22:10 ` Alan Cox
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