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Re: setrlimit() does not check for excess "cur" values

From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 17:20:08 -0400
Subject: Re: setrlimit() does not check for excess "cur" values
References: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0AF74D33 at MLBXv04 dot nih dot gov>
Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 06:14:47PM +0000, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>It looks like Cygwin's implementation of setrlimit() does not check
>whether a "cur" value being set for a resource has been requested
>higher than the "max" value.  It should have returned EINVAL.

Thanks for the test case.  I've checked in a fix to CVS.

cgf

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- setrlimit() does not check for excess "cur" values
  - From: Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]

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