Re: Userspace filesystems (WAS: Encrypted Filesystem)

From: Nikita Danilov
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 10:38:39 EST


Pavel Machek writes:
> Hi!
>

[...]

>
> Transient real failure looks pretty ugly. I'd not expect
> read(/etc/passwd) to return -ENOMEM, and read(/#ftp:somewhere/passwd)

read(/etc/passwd) can fail with -ENOMEM while allocating a page in the
page cache.

> should be the same, but as this is basically "can not happen"... I
> guess that's enough.
> Pavel

Nikita.

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