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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2010-08-10 21:01:33 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-11 11:59:02 -0400
commit06b1e104b7ea1bf5145643de5a3fce28b831ca4c (patch)
tree198733bb2979bad85682e841ffcfc164b5abe589 /fs/open.c
parent454eedb8901da895fb602998fa588cd62875d07d (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>
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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);
1031 1031
1032/* 1032/*
1033 * This is used by subsystems that don't want seekable 1033 * This is used by subsystems that don't want seekable
1034 * file descriptors 1034 * file descriptors. The function is not supposed to ever fail, the only
1035 * reason it returns an 'int' and not 'void' is so that it can be plugged
1036 * directly into file_operations structure.
1035 */ 1037 */
1036int nonseekable_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) 1038int nonseekable_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
1037{ 1039{