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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2010-08-10 18:01:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-11 08:59:02 -0700
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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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-rw-r--r--fs/open.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index b715d06fbe3..630715f9f73 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)
{