[Bug libc/12625] mntent operations provide no indication of failure due to RLIMIT_FSIZE

[drepper.fsp at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12625

Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> 2011-04-18 01:05:13 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Rather than forcing every setuid mount helper to explicitly alter resource
> limits prior to calling addmntent(), etc., it would be better if addmntent()
> attempted to flush and return failure based on the success of the fflush(), as
> suggested by Tomas Hoger:

That's completely bogus.  Applications which cannot handle problems introduced
like this also won't check the return value of addmntent.  Just fix the damned
programs which doesn't use the existing interface correctly.

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