linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix spelling mistake, EACCESS -> EACCES

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Message-ID: <CANiq72m-2FU7ioqj9sqsfWk4nSp2FO9S_8kYcbnGReXNAXYM2w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:53:50 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     colin.king@...onical.com, jk@...abs.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com, maxime.ripard@...tlin.com,
        sean@...rly.run, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix spelling mistake, EACCESS -> EACCES

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 8:40 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:20:12PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:27 PM Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> > >
> > > Trivial fix to a spelling mistake of the error access name EACCESS,
> > > rename to EACCES
> >
> > ? It is not a typo, it is the name of the error (POSIX). Same thing
> > for the rest of the patches.
>
> Are you sure?  From open(2):
>
>        EACCES The  requested access to the file is not allowed, or search per‐
>               mission is denied for one of the directories in the path  prefix
>               of  pathname,  or the file did not exist yet and write access to
>               the parent directory is not  allowed.   (See  also  path_resolu‐
>               tion(7).)
>
> include/uapi/asm-generic/errno-base.h:#define   EACCES          13      /* Permission denied */

I thought you were doing the reverse change. Never mind! :-)

(Btw, the POSIX reference is
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/errno.h.html#tag_13_09,
in case you want to include it or are curious)

Cheers,
Miguel