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Rob Landley wrote: > But no, this one's clearly a kernel error. If the kernel is giving write > errors against the device afterwards, than the kernel's internal state > toggled successfully, which is all the mount syscall was trying to do. Mount > is just reporting whether or not the syscall succeeded, not whether or not it > should have. :) OK, so there are actually two separate bugs, it seems: one that remounting a RO media in the RW mode succeeds (this "works" for any RO media, as far as I can tell) and the second (this one is specific to the floppy driver only) that a further write to such a falsely rw-remounted media doesn't return (in the user space) an error. Regards, Evgeny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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