Re: Adding truncate/ftruncate length argument checks

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:43:17PM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
 > According to the OpenGroup online doccuments for truncate[1] and
 > ftruncate[2], there are a few cases where both syscalls should fail
 > when given some length values :
 > 
 > - EINVAL for negative length.
 > - EFBIG (or EINVAL) for length bigger than process file size limit.

Isn't the process file size limit supposed to be about actual size
(rather than length)?

 > The attached patch add the missing length argument checks, and update
 > the man page accordingly.

Isn't there (shouldn't there be) some lock needed to read the limit
data?

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David A. Holland
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