Hi there!


I'm new on the YAFFS list. I had problems with preserving mode,uid,gid 
attributes on special files.

Browsing the code I figured out that the inode->i_op is not set when 
using special files.
I patched the code and it seems that the problem is now gone.

--- yaffs_fs.c  2003-10-29 21:42:34.000000000 +0100
+++ yaffs_fs.c.new      2004-06-18 11:48:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@
                switch (obj->st_mode & S_IFMT)
                {
                        default: // fifo, device or socket
+                               inode->i_op = &yaffs_file_inode_operations;
                                init_special_inode(inode, 
obj->st_mode,(dev_t)(obj->st_rdev));
                                break;
                        case S_IFREG:   // file

cheers,
Robbie


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