On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > > 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... .. I actually had an old binary that triggered that case (actually, it was O_LARGEFILE in open()), and didn't work as a result. I only needed to run it once, so I literally hacked up a once-time-use kernel that just removed the EOVERFLOW in open. So no, I'm not a fan of EOVERFLOW at all. Not in readdir(), not really anywhere else. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
