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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:51:21 -0400
From: "Rong-En Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: v_vfs_done error = 1 on gconcat device
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On 4/29/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:27:42AM -0400, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> +> On 4/29/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> +> >Yes, I'm afraid so. The BSD class just return EPERM when you try to
> +> >overwrite the metadata.
> +>
> +> Thanks. By the way, I'm just wondering if we can have some meaningful
> +> error message, like "permission denied" instead of the magic "1"?
>
> No, error messages are available only in userland - you don't want to
> eventually translate those in kernel. Anyway, I somehow know to consult
> errno(2). Also, "permission denied" doesn't tell much more about the
> problem.

Thanks for the explanation :)

Rong-En Fan