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[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return value

Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when
it should.  I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x..

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton пре 19 година
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      kernel/sys.c

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kernel/sys.c

@@ -1656,6 +1656,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setrlimit(unsigned int resource, struct rlimit __user *rlim)
 
 	if (resource != RLIMIT_CPU)
 		goto out;
+
+	/*
+	 * RLIMIT_CPU handling.   Note that the kernel fails to return an error
+	 * code if it rejected the user's attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU.  This is a
+	 * very long-standing error, and fixing it now risks breakage of
+	 * applications, so we live with it
+	 */
 	if (new_rlim.rlim_cur == RLIM_INFINITY)
 		goto out;