Q re POSIX->NT->POSIX error mapping

[Green, Paul]

Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org] wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:09:24AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:21:16PM -0500, Green, Paul wrote:
> > > With our patch:
> > > 
> > > 	{ ENOSYS, ERRDOS, ERReasnotsupported,
> > > NT_STATUS_EAS_NOT_SUPPORTED },
> > > 
> > > we get ENOTSUPP sent to sftp, which is what we want and need.
> > 
> > To me this looks wrong, this seems to be special-casing any
> > ENOSYS into something ea-specific to essentially work around
> > a Linux cifsfs bug.
> 
> Yes, this is wrong. The client needs to map NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED
> to ENOSYS. Client bug (IMHO). Paul, can you raise this in the Samba
> bugzilla to get the Linux CIFSFS client code fixed ?
> 
> Jeremy.


Yes, I will do this. Sorry for the delay in responding.

PG