Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262649AbVA0P4n (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:56:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262650AbVA0P4n (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:56:43 -0500 Received: from speedy.student.utwente.nl ([130.89.163.131]:65413 "EHLO speedy.student.utwente.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262649AbVA0P4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:56:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:56:34 +0100 From: Sytse Wielinga To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: fuse patch needs new libs Message-ID: <20050127155634.GA6476@speedy.student.utwente.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Davidsen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050125000339.GA610@speedy.student.utwente.nl> <41F90C85.5090705@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F90C85.5090705@tmr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1220 Lines: 27 On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:45:09AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Sytse Wielinga wrote: > >It is great that this is fixed, don't remove it, but it does require the fuse > >libs to be updated at the same time, or opening dirs for listings will break > >like this: > > > >open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOSYS (Function > >not implemented) > > > >As I personally like for my ls to keep on working, and I assume others will, > >too, I would appreciate it if you could add a warning to your announcements the > >following one or two weeks or so, so that people can remove this patch if they > >don't want to update their libs. > > By any chance would this also break perl programs which readdir? Of course; I haven't tested it, but the actual ioctls aren't working anymore, so it's not even _possible_ to get them to work with this patch and an old version of the fuse libs, even with perl bindings, which go through the fuse libs anyway. Sytse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/