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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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Dmitry Torokhov 2010-08-10 18:01:33 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 454eedb890
commit 06b1e104b7
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@ -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)
{