Re: [PATCH] Wrong errno out of memory in open syscall

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 11:43:34 EST

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    > 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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