On 10/28/2010 09:12 PM, Steve French wrote: > What is the code flow then on Windows9x, OS/2 or in the EOPNOSUPP > case? Seems strange that we don't retry with legacy or in the case > where the dialect (or previous call) shows that we don't support the > infolevel. > If CIFSSMBOpen fails, the callers seem to be fall back to legacy open using SMBLegacyOpen(). cifs_open() ... if (tcon->ses->capabilities & CAP_NT_SMBS) rc = CIFSSMBOpen(xid, tcon, full_path, disposition, desiredAccess, CREATE_NOT_DIR, &netfid, &oplock, buf, cifs_sb->local_nls, cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_MAP_SPECIAL_CHR); else rc = -EIO; /* no NT SMB support fall into legacy open below */ if (rc == -EIO) { /* Old server, try legacy style OpenX */ rc = SMBLegacyOpen(xid, tcon, full_path, disposition, desiredAccess, CREATE_NOT_DIR, &netfid, &oplock, buf, cifs_sb->local_nls, cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_MAP_SPECIAL_CHR); } -- Suresh Jayaraman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html