Re: [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow

[Peter Staubach]

Assar wrote:

> Peter Staubach <staubach@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>  
>
> > One other thing -- it doesn't seem particularly correct to me to just
> > silently truncate the symbolic link contents.
> >    
>
> Sure, and 2.6 indeed returns ENAMETOOLONG.  I was just trying to close
> the problem and not change the functionality in 2.4.  If the consensus
> is that we should change it to return an error, I can certainly cook
> up patches for that.

Understand.  I would recommend that the 2.4 kernel be modified to return
an error, since we are already modifying the area anyway.

   Thanx...

      ps
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