From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:12:22 GMT
Subject: Re: use result of open(2) to check for presence
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In-Reply-To: <118833cc0601050648t17f68bcch8fd7c541585e965c@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/5/06, Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neat, but perhaps you should check the fstat return code.
> It actually can fail, for example if the filesize cannot be represented in the
> structure because it is too big.

Yes, of course. It will be added along with the missing test for mmap
returning MAP_FAILED. Sometime.

Sarcasm aside, how do you get such a situation?