Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> 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...
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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