From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Rob Jones <rob.jones@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@codethink.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private()
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:36:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140901153637.GI7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409577428-16148-1-git-send-email-rob.jones@codethink.co.uk>
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Rob Jones wrote:
> void *__seq_open_private(struct file *f, const struct seq_operations *ops,
> - int psize)
> + size_t psize)
<sarcasm>
It is a horrible limitation to impose, indeed. Why, a lousy
2 gigabytes per line in procfs file - that's intolerable...
</sarcasm>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-01 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-01 13:17 [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private() Rob Jones
2014-09-01 15:36 ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-09-01 15:53 ` Rob Jones
2014-09-11 16:25 ` Rob Jones
2014-09-12 14:16 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-09-12 14:43 ` Rob Jones
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-09-01 13:43 Alexey Dobriyan
2014-09-01 13:54 ` Rob Jones
2014-09-01 14:13 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2014-09-01 14:38 ` Rob Jones
2014-09-01 21:22 ` Al Viro
2014-09-02 8:29 ` Rob Jones
2014-09-01 13:13 Rob Jones
2014-09-01 13:15 ` Rob Jones
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