Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion

[Miklos Szeredi]

"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> By the way, you might remember that I have asked about overriding
> creditials and signals.
> When a process issues chmod, rename or something, then the internal
> copyup happens. If RLIMIT_FSIZE is set to the process, then it may
> fire SIGXFSZ and return EFBIG. It looks strange.

Yeah, good observation.  Copy-up shouldn't fail on RLIMIT_FSIZE and it
doesn't because splice ignores RLIMIT_FSIZE.

So overlayfs works correctly because of a bug in splice.  Not very
satisfactory situation.

Thanks,
Miklos
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