Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:06:22 -0500 | From | Malahal Naineni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC v3] vfs: make fstatat retry once on ESTALE errors from getattr call |
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Steve Dickson [SteveD@redhat.com] wrote: > > Returning ESTALERETRY would be registering for it in a way and it is > > somewhat cleaner than having to go all the way back up to the fstype to > > figure out whether you want to retry it or not. > How would legacy apps handle this new errno, esp if they have logic > to take care of ESTALE errors? > > steved.
As I understand, there is no new errno for the apps. This new ESTALERETRY is produced and consumed by kernel only.
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