Re: [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow

[Assar]

Peter Staubach <staubach@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> One other thing -- it doesn't seem particularly correct to me to just
> silently truncate the symbolic link contents.

Sure, and 2.6 indeed returns ENAMETOOLONG.  I was just trying to close
the problem and not change the functionality in 2.4.  If the consensus
is that we should change it to return an error, I can certainly cook
up patches for that.
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