Re: [PATCH] nfsd: Make creates return EEXIST correctly instead of EPERM

[Oleg Drokin]

On Jul 8, 2016, at 10:52 PM, Al Viro wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:59:50AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 
>> "If path names a symbolic link, mkdir() shall fail and set errno to [EEXIST]."
>> 
>> This sounds pretty straightforward to me, no?
>> Since it does not matter that we do not have write permissions here, because
>> the name already exists.
> 
> When more than one condition applies, we have every right to return any of
> them.  POSIX does *NOT* specify the order of checks.  Never had.

Out of curiosity, why does filename_create() delay EROFS then?