Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:19:12 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options |
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> Well it's not my call, just seems like a really bad idea to change the > error value. You can't claim full coverage for such testing anyway, it's > one of those things that people will complain about two releases later > saying it broke app foo.
Strange since we've spent years changing error values and getting them right in the past.
There are real things to worry about - sysfs, sysfs, sysfs, ... and all the other crap which is continually breaking stuff, not spec compliance corrections that don't break things but move us into compliance with the standard
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