Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 1998 02:18:02 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: More FD's in 2.0.33 |
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On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 11:08:14AM +1000, Dancer wrote: > Doesn't some software just set that parameter to all sorts of funny > values? I've always found the honesty of software dealing with that > parameter to be dubious. > > In short, yes, that is what that parameter is there for...but it is not > necessarily set to anything sane, IMO.
Then EINVAL/EBADF/EACCES/EFAULT are the right answer. The kernel isn't here to guess what the user really meant.
OG.
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