Re: [PATCH] Return more useful error number when acls are too large

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

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@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX AG

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/