On Thu, Sep 27 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:01:18 -0700 > Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:29:19 +0100 > > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The early LFS work that Linux uses favours EFBIG in various places. > > > SuSv3 specifically uses EOVERFLOW for this as noted by Michael (Bug > > > 7253) > > isn't this an ABI change? > > Its a change of a specific error return from the wrong error to the right > one, nothing more. Fixing the returned error gives us correct behaviour > according to the standards and other systems.
It may still break applications. Waving some standard at them if they complain is unlikely to impress them. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
