On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:28:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 1 2007 15:09, Dave Jones wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:16:22PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > From: Dave Jones > > > Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/255 > > > >I had to stop and think if this was an April 1st :) > > Read the mail entitled "[PATCH 0/16] Assorted patches".
That's what happens when you read inbox before mailing list folders :) > >As to whether the patch is worthwhile/correct.. > >I really don't know. I posted it back then in the hopes > >that someone smbfs-savvy would pop up and review it. > >As you can see from the archive, no-one did. > > It seems to have been resent once, 7 days after you: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/15/231 Hmm, with no changelog. I wonder if JA was hitting that bug and independantly came up with that patch, or was just resubmitting on my behalf. > At that time, I had experienced strange copy failures ("No such file or > directory") while the directory being copied was not modified. With the > patch, I at least got EINTR instead of ENOENT, which I think made cp > think once more to retry. I suppose we could throw it in -mm and see if anyone screams. Andrew? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

