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Date:	Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:26:40 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:	Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@...la.net>
Cc:	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vfs-scale, keep the errno

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@...la.net> wrote:
> On Friday 14 January 2011, 05:01:37 Nick Piggin wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:38 PM, J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>
> wrote:
>> > When open(2) without O_DIRECTORY opens an existing dir, it should
>> > return EISDIR. In do_last(), the variable 'error' is initialized
>> > EISDIR, but it is changed by d_revalidate() which returns any
>> > positive to represent 'the target dir is valid.'
>> > Should we keep and return the initialized 'error' in this case.
>>
>> Great, thank you very much. I just changed a few variable names but
>> applied it. Would you please add you Signed-off-by: on patches from
>> now on?
>>
>> Good reviewing work. Are you finding these by review or testing? I
>> think ltptests on an nfs mount should find this kind of bug... which
>> I should do.
>
> Nick, Junjiro is well known as a very smart (and|but) humble guy in the

I agree, based on the thoughtful review comments and patches :)

Thanks,
Nick
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