On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Yeah a comment would have really helped, since it seems stupid it > must be a typo in the standards document. > > 6e656be899993f450a765056cdc8d87e58906508 Ahh. Yes, it's stupid. That sadly does _not_ mean that it's necessarily a typo, though. It might easily be intentional, due to some random original Unix implementation detail. But yeah, that commit message is wonderful, but a single-line comment about crazy POSIX rules in the actual code itself would probably have been a good idea too. 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