[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return value
Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when
it should. I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x..
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 9e157e0..19d058b 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1656,6 +1656,13 @@
if (resource != RLIMIT_CPU)
goto out;
+
+ /*
+ * RLIMIT_CPU handling. Note that the kernel fails to return an error
+ * code if it rejected the user's attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU. This is a
+ * very long-standing error, and fixing it now risks breakage of
+ * applications, so we live with it
+ */
if (new_rlim.rlim_cur == RLIM_INFINITY)
goto out;