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SubjectRe: [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow
Assar wrote:

>Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> writes:
>
>
>>One other thing -- it doesn't seem particularly correct to me to just
>>silently truncate the symbolic link contents.
>>
>>
>
>Sure, and 2.6 indeed returns ENAMETOOLONG. I was just trying to close
>the problem and not change the functionality in 2.4. If the consensus
>is that we should change it to return an error, I can certainly cook
>up patches for that.
>

Understand. I would recommend that the 2.4 kernel be modified to return
an error, since we are already modifying the area anyway.

Thanx...

ps
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