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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...>

To: Alan Cox <alan@...>

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options

Date: Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 10:35 am

On Thu, Sep 27 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
quoted text> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:01:18 -0700
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:29:19 +0100
> > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > The early LFS work that Linux uses favours EFBIG in various places.
> > > SuSv3 specifically uses EOVERFLOW for this as noted by Michael (Bug
> > > 7253)
> > isn't this an ABI change?
> 
> Its a change of a specific error return from the wrong error to the right
> one, nothing more. Fixing the returned error gives us correct behaviour
> according to the standards and other systems.

It may still break applications. Waving some standard at them if they
complain is unlikely to impress them.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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[PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file wi..., Alan Cox, (Thu Sep 27, 9:29 am)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Arjan van de Ven, (Thu Sep 27, 10:01 am)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Alan Cox, (Thu Sep 27, 10:19 am)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Jens Axboe, (Thu Sep 27, 10:35 am)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Alan Cox, (Thu Sep 27, 10:44 am)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Jens Axboe, (Thu Sep 27, 11:08 am)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Alan Cox, (Thu Sep 27, 11:19 am)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Theodore Tso, (Thu Sep 27, 11:59 am)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Jens Axboe, (Thu Sep 27, 7:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Andrew Morton, (Thu Sep 27, 1:23 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Greg KH, (Thu Sep 27, 1:59 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Theodore Tso, (Thu Sep 27, 2:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Greg KH, (Thu Sep 27, 5:34 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Theodore Tso, (Thu Sep 27, 7:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Greg KH, (Thu Sep 27, 11:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Sep 27, 7:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Greg KH, (Thu Sep 27, 11:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Theodore Tso, (Thu Sep 27, 10:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Kyle Moffett, (Thu Sep 27, 6:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Greg KH, (Thu Sep 27, 7:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large fil..., Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Sep 27, 2:45 pm)

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