Bad file access on the rise

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 09.06.13 12:38, Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 10:03 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 
> > Why would anyone write software that is incorrect enough the OS spits it back 
> > as EINVAL? 
> 
> One example is the btrfs ioctl() for reflink:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626497

You also check for EINVAL when testing for certain prctl() features at
runtime.

Or for testing whether /dev/kmsg supports reading.

Or...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.