----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wanlong Gao" <[email protected]> > To: "Jan Stancek" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], "Jeffrey Burke" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:50:56 PM > Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] readlink03: fix expected errno for kernel >=3.2 > > Hi Jan, > > > > > This kernel commit restored original behavior: > > commit 1fa1e7f615f4d3ae436fa319af6e4eebdd4026a8 > > Author: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed Nov 2 09:44:39 2011 +0100 > > readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for > > normal lookups > > > > For kernel >= 3.2, ENOENT should be expected errno code. > > > I had posted a patch long time ago, you can see here > http://marc.info/?l=ltp-list&m=132063831228321&w=2 > > This is a kernel bug, and already fixed in 3.0 and 3.1 > stable tree, so, just test the kernel version like this > is not the best method. > > What do you think?
Agreed, version check doesn't make much sense. I think if this patch was important enough to be backported to stable trees, we can be sure it's a bug and we can drop that version check entirely - which is what your patch does. Regards, Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
