From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca (Richard Gooch)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
linux-kernel@borntraeger.net (Christian Bornträger),
acmay@acmay.homeip.net (andrew may),
ajschrotenboer@lycosmail.com (Adam Schrotenboer),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.17pre2: devfs: devfs_mk_dir(printers): could not append to dir: dffe45c0 "", err: -17
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:14:49 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16Ad0j-0004Qg-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200112022001.fB2K16Q12503@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> from "Richard Gooch" at Dec 02, 2001 01:01:06 PM
> I wouldn't say it's not back compatible. If you want to use a new
> devfsd feature, then you need the new devfs. The key difference
> between the old and new devfs core (aside from fixing those races) is
> that the new devfs core will spit out an EEXIST warning message
> whereas before it didn't. But his system still worked. It didn't
> break.
Ok so the old devfsd works but spews a few errors. Right - then I agree
with you.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-02 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-01 9:20 Christian Bornträger
2001-12-01 18:08 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-02 1:37 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-02 2:09 ` andrew may
2001-12-02 18:47 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-02 19:10 ` Christian Bornträger
2001-12-02 19:41 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-02 19:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-02 20:01 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-02 20:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-12-02 20:22 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-02 1:49 ` Richard Gooch
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