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| author | Dmitry Torokhov | 2010-08-10 18:01:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2010-08-11 08:59:02 -0700 |
| commit | 06b1e104b7ea1bf5145643de5a3fce28b831ca4c (patch) | |
| tree | 198733bb2979bad85682e841ffcfc164b5abe589 /fs | |
| parent | 454eedb8901da895fb602998fa588cd62875d07d (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/open.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index b715d06fbe36..630715f9f73d 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -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) { |