From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return more useful error number when acls are too large
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:10:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083093044.16824.312.camel@winden.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040427183228.GF2086@fieldses.org>
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:32, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:27:58PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > could you please add this to mainline? Getting EINVAL when an acl
> > becomes too large is quite confusing.
>
> On my system, at least, "man acl_set_file" does explicitly say that
> EINVAL is returned in this case. Whether that should be considered a
> bug in the documentation or the code I don't know....
Indeed ... looking at POSIX 1003.1e draft 17 I now see that this
function is indeed supposed to return EINVAL in this case. I was
assuming that this case was undefined, but that was wrong. So let's
leave the code as is -- sorry.
Cheers,
--
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX AG
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-27 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-26 10:27 [PATCH] Return more useful error number when acls are too large Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-04-27 1:24 ` Nathan Scott
2004-04-27 18:07 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-04-27 18:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-04-27 19:10 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
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