[PATCH] Wrong errno out of memory in open syscall

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

In message <E12EEUh-00053m-00 en the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
+-----
| > -                       return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
| > +                       return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
|
| ENOMEM isnt a valid return to open() except for a streams file. Quite why
| SuS  specifies this I dont know. 
+--->8

System V returns EAGAIN for this kind of condition, since it's considered a 
"temporarily out of system resources" kind of error, FWIW.  It would seem to 
make a bit more sense than EACCES.

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