Bug 461458
| Summary: | kernel returns EPERM when RLIMIT_NOFILE is set to RLIM_INFINITY | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Adam Tkac <atkac> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | bashton, ovasik, wolfgang.rupprecht | ||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-11-04 10:52:02 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Created attachment 316057 [details]
proposed patch
If you haven't already, can you send this to linux-kernel.org please ? Thanks. (In reply to comment #2) > If you haven't already, can you send this to linux-kernel.org > please ? > > Thanks. Done, already in MM tree. Would it be possible include attached patch to next distribution kernel update, please? (all F8/F9/rawhide kernels) It is needed by bind package (bug #461913). Thanks Improved version of patch is on http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/12/56 *** Bug 461913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Has this patch made it into the kernel, if so please close this bug. Patch has been merged in 0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f (2.6.28 series), closing |
Created attachment 316052 [details] testcase Description of problem: when I want set open files limit to infinity kernel returns EPERM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ uname -r 2.6.27-0.312.rc5.git7.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: try run attached testcase (under root, of course) and see output from strace Actual results: limit is not set, EPERM is returned Expected results: limit is set to "infinity" (currently NR_OPEN)