Eric Paris wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 11:12 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: >> This patch fixes a regression that was introduced by the string based mounts. >> >> nfs_mount() statically returns -EACCES for every error returned >> by the remote mounted. This is incorrect because -EACCES is >> an non-fatal error to the mount.nfs command. This error causes >> mount.nfs to retry the mount even in the case when the exported >> directory does not exist. >> >> This patch maps the errors returned by the remote mountd into >> valid errno values, exactly how it was done pre-string based >> mounts. By returning the correct errno enables mount.nfs >> to do the right thing. > > Does this mean the EACCES can/will again become fatal in mount.nfs like > it used to be? EACCES is still a non-fatal error as it was... The problem is the kernel was should have been returning ENOENT, which is a fatal error, instead of EACCES. steved. _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
