On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Attached is patch to workaround the problem found in posix open to > Samba versions 3.3.1 and earlier > (create works, but open would fail with invalid parameter) - it > disables requests to try posix open after > a first failure. > > > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > linux-cifs-client mailing list > linux-cifs-client@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-cifs-client > > Steve, I think I will have to apply similar logic in cifs_lookup for lookup intents i.e. when cifs_posix_open fails with the same return code, follow the usual lookup path, I do not have to disable posix opens though as Simo said. Would be wasting a transaction in the process though in case of samba servers that have this problem. Regards, Shirish -- 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