Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:29:19 +0100
Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> The early LFS work that Linux uses favours EFBIG in various places.
> SuSv3 specifically uses EOVERFLOW for this as noted by Michael (Bug
> 7253)


isn't this an ABI change?
What's the gain for doing this ABI change?
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