Messages in this thread | | | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] readdir mess | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:45:02 +0900 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> As to -EOVERFLOW, I suspect we are better off just dropping that whole > logic. Returning -EOVERFLOW and truncating the readdir listing is likely > much worse than the alternative. It made sense back when we needed to get > people to upgrade the system interfaces, now it just means that old > binaries won't work at all.
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... -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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