Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:19:21 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options |
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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.
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