From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262275AbTEIOkf (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 10:40:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263269AbTEIOkf (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 10:40:35 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:33696 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262275AbTEIOke (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 10:40:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 07:53:07 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mm3 Message-ID: <20030509145307.GA8931@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20030508013958.157b27b7.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030508013958.157b27b7.akpm@digeo.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:39:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.69-mm3.gz > Will appear sometime at > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.69/2.5.69-mm3/ This comment looks stale; AIUI the behavior coded is what's desired. This came up in a discussion with some implementors of a language runtime about the cause of failures to open large files. -- wli diff -prauN linux-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c open-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c --- linux-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c Wed Apr 9 06:42:36 2003 +++ open-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c Fri May 9 07:19:25 2003 @@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ /* * Called when an inode is about to be open. - * We use this to disallow opening RW large files on 32bit systems if + * We use this to disallow opening large files on 32bit systems if * the caller didn't specify O_LARGEFILE. On 64bit systems we force * on this flag in sys_open. */