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The only negative value ever returned by prepend_path() is -ENAMETOOLONG and callers can recognize that situation (overflow) by looking at the sign of buflen. Lift that into the callers; we already have the same logics (buf if buflen is non-negative, ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG) otherwise) in several places and that'll become a new primitive several commits down the road. Make prepend_path() return 0 instead of -ENAMETOOLONG. That makes for saner calling conventions (0/1/2/3/-ENAMETOOLONG is obnoxious) and callers actually get simpler, especially once the aforementioned primitive gets added. In prepend_path() itself we switch prepending the / (in case of empty path) to use of prepend() - no need to open-code that, compiler will do the right thing. It's exactly the same logics as in __dentry_path(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.