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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:01:18 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:29:19 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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?