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

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In message <E12EEUh-00053m-00@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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