On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:18 PM, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > re-send in ascii > > man 2 mknod says EPERM is what we should use here.: > > EPERM mode requested creation of something other than a regular > file, > FIFO (named pipe), or UNIX domain socket, and the caller is > not > privileged (Linux: does not have the CAP_MKNOD capability); > also > returned if the filesystem containing pathname does not > support > the type of node requested. ok - looks good . thx > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Looks fine to me - only question is what return code is supposed to be >> returned - any luck tracking down what other fs return on unsupported >> types? >> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > RHBZ: 1453123 >> > >> > Since at least the 3.10 kernel and likely a lot earlier we have >> > not been able to create unix domain sockets in a cifs share. >> > Trying to create a socket, for example using the af_unix command from >> > xfstests will cause : >> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000 >> > 00000040 Steve -- 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
