Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:05:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] readdir mess |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > > However, there are some similar stuff: ->st_size, ->st_nlink and > ->st_ino in stat() (cp_old_stat()). Maybe EOVERFLOW is the reason for > consistency...
.. I actually had an old binary that triggered that case (actually, it was O_LARGEFILE in open()), and didn't work as a result. I only needed to run it once, so I literally hacked up a once-time-use kernel that just removed the EOVERFLOW in open.
So no, I'm not a fan of EOVERFLOW at all. Not in readdir(), not really anywhere else.
Linus
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