On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 05:25:23PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> > > Return proper error value for linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) without enough > privileges. > > I guess ENOENT was used here, because without AT_EMPTY_PATH that's what > we'd return for an empty path. But it is wrong for AT_EMPTY_PATH, since we > might not even be passing an empty path, we are simply complaining about > lack of privs for which EPERM is the proper error.
Umm... Are you sure that nothing in userland is checking for that return value? I agree that EPERM would make more sense, but... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
