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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: fcntl, avoid undefined behaviour
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:34:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e120880d-52b1-5129-199f-9add4c465f30@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477308581.2625.20.camel@redhat.com>

On 10/24/2016, 01:29 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> It looks like it lists this as a "may fail" case:
> 
>     http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fcntl.html
> 
>     [EINVAL]
>         The cmd argument is F_SETOWN and the value of the argument
>         is not valid as a process or process group identifier.

Huh, my man 3p fcntl only lists [EDEADLK] at that point. (I have 2013
edition opposing to 2016 from the link above)

> IMO, returning an error here is the right thing to do. Either the
> application isn't checking for errors, in which case returning one won't
> matter, or it is, and they probably want to be informed that their
> F_SETOWN didn't do what they expected.

Ok, will do.

-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-24 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-14  9:23 [PATCH] fs: fcntl, avoid undefined behaviour Jiri Slaby
2016-10-14  9:23 ` [PATCH] fs: pipe, fix " Jiri Slaby
2016-10-14  9:57   ` Vegard Nossum
2016-10-14 11:48 ` [PATCH] fs: fcntl, avoid " Jeff Layton
2016-10-14 13:38   ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-10-24  9:15     ` Jiri Slaby
2016-10-24 11:29       ` Jeff Layton
2016-10-24 11:34         ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2017-06-12  5:03 ` zhong jiang
2017-06-13  9:29   ` Jiri Slaby
2017-06-13 10:02     ` zhong jiang

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