From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Re: [PATCH] make exportfs give "standard" error for file does exist
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:13:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZL36XiBmFhTPbgEm@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80e78967-bbc8-a053-75fe-3033b8f491c3@posixcafe.org>
Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org> once said:
> The problem is that exportfs sends the errstr back from what
> it gets from open(2). The kernel gives you back the path attempted
> to be accessed in quotes prefixed to 'does not exist'.
> Every fileserver using Enotexist would not fix exportfs causing
> this issue with v9fs.
I understand. That's partly why I suggested sending a patch
to lkml. They use memcmp on the errstr but they should be
doing the equivalent of strstr (like Go's syscall package).
Cheers,
Anthony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-24 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-23 21:07 [9front] " Jacob Moody
2023-07-23 22:03 ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-23 22:11 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-23 22:24 ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-24 0:19 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 21:20 ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-24 22:33 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 0:07 ` Michael Forney
2023-07-24 0:56 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 2:12 ` ori
2023-07-24 8:13 ` hiro
2023-07-24 23:37 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 23:54 ` ori
2023-07-24 0:51 ` [9front] " Anthony Martin
2023-07-24 1:03 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 4:13 ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2023-07-24 4:20 ` ori
2023-07-25 6:09 ` Anthony Martin
2023-07-25 8:26 ` hiro
2023-07-25 13:14 ` ori
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