Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit

[Ken Chen]

On 4/1/07, devzero@xxxxxx <devzero@xxxxxx> wrote:
> not sure if this is a real issue and if it`s UML or loop related -
> but how is low-memory situations being handled when
> creating loop devices ?

kernel returns -ENOMEM as an error code if there are no memory left to
initialize loop device.


> should losetup or dmesg tell "out of memory" if there is not
> enough memory left ?

It should, as kernel does pass that info back to app.  Does losetup
check return value of open() syscall?
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