Re: 2.5.69-mm3

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 9 May 2003 07:53:07 -0700

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:39:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.69-mm3.gz
> Will appear sometime at
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.69/2.5.69-mm3/

This comment looks stale; AIUI the behavior coded is what's desired.
This came up in a discussion with some implementors of a language
runtime about the cause of failures to open large files.

-- wli

diff -prauN linux-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c open-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c
--- linux-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c Wed Apr 9 06:42:36 2003
+++ open-2.5.69-1/fs/open.c Fri May 9 07:19:25 2003
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@

/*
* Called when an inode is about to be open.
- * We use this to disallow opening RW large files on 32bit systems if
+ * We use this to disallow opening large files on 32bit systems if
* the caller didn't specify O_LARGEFILE. On 64bit systems we force
* on this flag in sys_open.
*/
-
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