Pilot error. I had limit 256 of proccesses for each user, which was
easily exhausted by this. Kernel reports ENOMEM in such case, which is
I believe wrong. ENOMEM4U would be much better, EPERM seems
reasonable. Any comments? Do I break posix? (I'm not sending it to
linus. Yet.)
Pavel
--- clean/kernel/fork.c Wed Mar 10 22:37:42 1999
+++ linux/kernel/fork.c Tue Mar 16 00:03:14 1999
@@ -511,8 +533,10 @@
lock_kernel();
if (p->user) {
- if (atomic_read(&p->user->count) >= p->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur)
+ if (atomic_read(&p->user->count) >= p->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur) {
+ retval = -EPERM;
goto bad_fork_free;
+ }
}
{
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