On Thu, Sep 27 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:01:18 -0700
> Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Its a change of a specific error return from the wrong error to the right
> one, nothing more. Fixing the returned error gives us correct behaviour
> according to the standards and other systems.
It may still break applications. Waving some standard at them if they
complain is unlikely to impress them.
--
Jens Axboe
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