Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:27:52 -0400 | From | Peter Staubach <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow |
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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...
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