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[Bug libc/12625] mntent operations provide no indication of failure due to RLIMIT_FSIZE
- From: "drepper.fsp at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:05:32 +0000
- Subject: [Bug libc/12625] mntent operations provide no indication of failure due to RLIMIT_FSIZE
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- References: <bug-12625-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12625
Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #2 from Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> 2011-04-18 01:05:13 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Rather than forcing every setuid mount helper to explicitly alter resource
> limits prior to calling addmntent(), etc., it would be better if addmntent()
> attempted to flush and return failure based on the success of the fflush(), as
> suggested by Tomas Hoger:
That's completely bogus. Applications which cannot handle problems introduced
like this also won't check the return value of addmntent. Just fix the damned
programs which doesn't use the existing interface correctly.
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