Re: [PATCH] fs: fcntl, avoid undefined behaviour

[Jiri Slaby]

On 10/24/2016, 01:29 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> It looks like it lists this as a "may fail" case:
> 
>     http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fcntl.html
> 
>     [EINVAL]
>         The cmd argument is F_SETOWN and the value of the argument
>         is not valid as a process or process group identifier.

Huh, my man 3p fcntl only lists [EDEADLK] at that point. (I have 2013
edition opposing to 2016 from the link above)

> IMO, returning an error here is the right thing to do. Either the
> application isn't checking for errors, in which case returning one won't
> matter, or it is, and they probably want to be informed that their
> F_SETOWN didn't do what they expected.

Ok, will do.

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