[PATCH] Wrong errno out of memory in open syscall

[Alan Cox]

> It's a simple one line patch, below.
> 
> --- linux-2.3.40/fs/ext2/namei.c        Fri Jan 28 16:23:32 2000
> +++ linux/fs/ext2/namei.c       Fri Jan 28 16:40:41 2000
> @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
>                 inode = iget(dir->i_sb, ino);
>  
>                 if (!inode)
> -                       return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
> +                       return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>         }
>         d_add(dentry, inode);
>         return NULL;

ENOMEM isnt a valid return to open() except for a streams file. Quite why
SuS  specifies this I dont know. 


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