[PATCH] Wrong errno out of memory in open syscall

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > 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. 

Man pages with 

Linux 2.0.32            December 20, 1996                       4

on them say ENOMEM is to be expected, and it is way better than
telling people that EACCES. I think we should ignore SuS in this case.

								Pavel
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