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

> 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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