Re: nfs vs xfstests 193

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:08:58AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 05:20:34PM +0400, Stanislav Kholmanskikh wrote:
> > Just to make the behaviour more consistent between NFS and other
> > "local" file systems as It was done by
> > commit 
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0953e620de0538cbd081f1b45126f6098112a598
> 
> Seems like we got others in line with XFS behavior.

But, not having tested the behavior, it looks like fs/open.c has a
simlar !S_ISDIR() check.  Where's that behavior implemented?

> I'd prefer to have NFS follow this as well.

Huh.  Sachin, do you remember if there was any other motivation behind
that patch?

--b.