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

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Message-ID: <CANiq72=4KUL60=_T_VEUZmjoRFkuRmT5WCfbXO9mJ5bZoVgZ+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:54:43 +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 8:53 PM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
>
> 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)

Sorry Matthew, thought I was answering to Colin. I should go to rest.

Cheers,
Miguel