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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:24:54 +0200
From: Rik Theys <Rik.Theys@esat.kuleuven.be>
To: bfields@fieldses.org
CC: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Open with O_CREAT flag set fails to open existing files on non
 writable directories
In-reply-to: 20110420152324.GB15919@fieldses.org
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Hi,

 >> The patch adds a conditional statement to check for create permissions
 >> only if the file doesn't exist.

 > That looks correct to me, thanks.

 > It's a bad bug, but appears to be one we've lived with a long time, so
 > I'm a bit up in the air whether to submit now for 2.6.39 or to queue up
 > for 2.6.40.

As an administrator who is hit by this bug on a daily basis, I would 
like it to reach 2.6.39. But as I filed the bug, I guess I'm biased :-).

Distributions would like to see this accepted upstream before they 
consider backporting the fix to their current stable releases.


Regards,

Rik