Re: [BUG ?] smbfs open always succeeds

[tvrtko . ursulin]

>I posted a possible bug report to the maintainer about 10 days ago but
>with no response, therefore here it goes again. As far a I can tell it is
>common for both 2.4 and 2.6.
>
>Sorry if this is not a bug but some hidden functionality!
>
>--- snippet from the original mail to the maintainer ---
>
>Looking at linux-2.6.9/fs/smbfs/file.c line 365 (end of the smb_file_open
>function). Shouldn't it be "return result;" instead of "return 0;" ?
>
>I've been tracing some strange behaviour and this fixed it for me. But I
>am far away from being an expert. :)

I investigated a bit and found a nfs_open function at 
linux-2.6.9/fs/nfs/inode.c line 906 which also always returns 0. So is 
this a network filesystem way of handling opens and not a bug after all? I 
am not sure though that both nfs and smbfs operate in the same way and am 
not claiming that.

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