Commit 06b1e104 authored Aug 10, 2010 by Dmitry Torokhov Committed by Linus Torvalds Aug 11, 2010

vfs: clarify that nonseekable_open() will never fail



Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 454eedb8

fs/open.c

+3 −1

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		@@ -1031,7 +1031,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_open);

		/*
		* This is used by subsystems that don't want seekable
		* file descriptors
		* file descriptors. The function is not supposed to ever fail, the only
		* reason it returns an 'int' and not 'void' is so that it can be plugged
		* directly into file_operations structure.
		*/
		int nonseekable_open(struct inode inode, struct file filp)
		{