From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265665AbUBBPgm (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:36:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265667AbUBBPgm (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:36:42 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:7872 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265665AbUBBPgl (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:36:41 -0500 From: Nikita Danilov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16414.28295.459818.511662@laputa.namesys.com> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:36:39 +0300 To: Pavel Machek Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Userspace filesystems (WAS: Encrypted Filesystem) In-Reply-To: <20040202151953.GA262@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200401281350.i0SDo2I03247@duna48.eth.ericsson.se> <20040130170610.GB625@elf.ucw.cz> <200402020942.i129gHf15172@duna48.eth.ericsson.se> <20040202151953.GA262@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek writes: > Hi! > [...] > > Transient real failure looks pretty ugly. I'd not expect > read(/etc/passwd) to return -ENOMEM, and read(/#ftp:somewhere/passwd) read(/etc/passwd) can fail with -ENOMEM while allocating a page in the page cache. > should be the same, but as this is basically "can not happen"... I > guess that's enough. > Pavel Nikita.