Re: [PATCH -v3] vfs: make unlink() and rmdir() return ENOENT inpreference to EROFS

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Jun 06 2011 - 20:05:40 EST


On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 07:19:40PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> If user space attempts to remove a non-existent file or directory, and
> the file system is mounted read-only, return ENOENT instead of EROFS.
> Either error code is arguably valid/correct, but ENOENT is a more
> specific error message.
>
> Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>

Applied. In for-next for now, will go into for-linus once Linus picks
the last pull request...
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