RE: [MiNT] an example of broken lib

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>]

Hi Julian!

> > > The kernel should pass back what the XFS reports. It shouldn't make any
> > > assumptions about why a particular error code is returned.
> >
> > The kernel return an EINVFN as E_OK. I introduced this in 1.5.0 to make
> > the FAT filesystem more tar friendly. I see no negative side effect, it
> > exist Dpathconf() to verify if a feature is supported.
> 
> I really don't like this. The kernel shouldn't lie to me. If this is useful,
> it should be done in the library.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that this only affect system call Fchown(). If
uid and gid are not supported by the xfs the call have no effect at all.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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