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Re: Using /dev/full in execv

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Dag Nygren <dag at newtech dot fi>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:42:19 -0700
Subject: Re: Using /dev/full in execv
References: <20060822153732.17893.qmail@dag.newtech.fi>

Dag Nygren wrote:
> My problem here is that glibc shouldn't segfault here but preferably
> tell me what is going on....

You haven't spent a second looking at the code in question, have you?
Any error message can be fatal, that's the whole purpose of opening that
device.  There even is a comment in the code explaining that.

-- 
â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â

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