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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: RT scheduling and a way to make a process hang, unkillable
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:36:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1235493365.4645.2061.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874oyj4yiz.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:58 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> >  		new->euid = euid;
> > Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/errno.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-generic/errno.h
> > +++ linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/errno.h
> > @@ -106,4 +106,6 @@
> >  #define	EOWNERDEAD	130	/* Owner died */
> >  #define	ENOTRECOVERABLE	131	/* State not recoverable */
> >  
> > +#define ENOTIME		132	/* No time available to run process */
> 
> It's normally not a good idea to add new errnos, because old glibc's
> strerror()s won't know about it.
> 
> There are also so many around that you surely will find an existing
> one which sounds appropiate.

Feel free to suggest one, I've read over all these error thingies
several times and non really stood out.

We tried ENOSPC, but people thought that weird too.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-15  0:51 RT scheduling and a way to make a process hang, unkillable Corey Hickey
2009-02-15 11:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-16 10:36   ` Dhaval Giani
2009-02-16 11:08     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-16 12:02       ` Dhaval Giani
2009-02-16 12:24         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-16 13:14           ` Dhaval Giani
2009-02-16 13:19             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-16 14:23               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-16 13:20             ` Dhaval Giani
2009-02-16 19:18               ` Corey Hickey
2009-02-17  5:00                 ` Dhaval Giani
2009-02-17 10:15                   ` Dhaval Giani
2009-02-17 11:15                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-18  0:09                       ` Corey Hickey
2009-02-23 11:45                       ` Dhaval Giani
2009-02-23 11:59                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-24  9:18                           ` Dhaval Giani
2009-02-24 15:58                             ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-24 16:36                               ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-02-24 19:29                                 ` Chris Friesen
2009-02-27  9:43                                   ` [PATCH] sched: Don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidth Dhaval Giani
2009-02-27 10:25                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-16 20:16     ` RT scheduling and a way to make a process hang, unkillable Kyle Moffett
2009-02-16 20:28       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-17  7:22       ` Dhaval Giani

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