Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750825AbWHTQF0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:05:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750834AbWHTQFZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:05:25 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:18183 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750825AbWHTQFZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:05:25 -0400 From: Florian Weimer To: Solar Designer Cc: Willy Tarreau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits References: <20060820003840.GA17249@openwall.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:04:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20060820003840.GA17249@openwall.com> (Solar Designer's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:38:40 +0400") Message-ID: <87veonqtp8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 460 Lines: 12 * Solar Designer: > Opinions are welcome. Distributors have already begun to patch userland to check for error returns. Arguably, this is the correct approach, but I fear it takes far too long to fix all callers. - 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/