linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] readdir mess

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808121303510.3462@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:05:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] readdir mess



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
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