On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:09:19PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Dec 4 2006 07:30, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> >+/* Determine the mode based on the copyup flags, and the existing dentry. */
> >+static int copyup_permissions(struct super_block *sb,
> >+ struct dentry *old_hidden_dentry,
> >+ struct dentry *new_hidden_dentry)
> >+{
> >+ struct inode *i = old_hidden_dentry->d_inode;
>
> Screams for constification. (Or rather I do.)
I'm not following.
> >+{
> >+ int err = 0;
> >+ umode_t old_mode = old_hidden_dentry->d_inode->i_mode;
>
> Generel question for everybody: Why do we have two same (at least on i386
> that's the case) types, umode_t and mode_t?
No idea.
> >+ } else if (S_ISBLK(old_mode)
> >+ || S_ISCHR(old_mode)
> >+ || S_ISFIFO(old_mode)
> >+ || S_ISSOCK(old_mode)) {
> >+ args.mknod.parent = new_hidden_parent_dentry->d_inode;
> >+ args.mknod.dentry = new_hidden_dentry;
> >+ args.mknod.mode = old_mode;
>
> I'd say the indent got screwed up, and it's not a mailer thing.
Right.
> >+ input_file = dentry_open(old_hidden_dentry,
> >+ unionfs_lower_mnt_idx(dentry, old_bindex), O_RDONLY | O_LARGEFILE);
> >+ if (IS_ERR(input_file)) {
...
> >+ output_file = dentry_open(new_hidden_dentry,
> >+ unionfs_lower_mnt_idx(dentry, new_bindex), O_WRONLY | O_LARGEFILE);
>
> Here we got an 80-column buster.
/me whistles innocently
> >+ /* TODO: should we reset the error to something like -EIO? */
>
> Handle it :) - if it does not take a paper.
I'm not even sure if we want to reset it to begin with.
If we don't reset, the user may get some non-sensical errors, but on the
other hand, if we reset to EIO, we guarantee that the user will get a
"confusing" error message.
Josef "Jeff" Sipek.
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