Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264260AbUD0Sch (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:32:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264262AbUD0Sch (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:32:37 -0400 Received: from dsl093-002-214.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.2.214]:55812 "EHLO pumpkin.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264260AbUD0Scf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:32:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:32:28 -0400 To: Andreas Gruenbacher Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return more useful error number when acls are too large Message-ID: <20040427183228.GF2086@fieldses.org> References: <1082973939.3295.16.camel@winden.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1082973939.3295.16.camel@winden.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 14 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.... --Bruce Fields - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/