This fails on rhel5.7 2.6.18-259.el5 kernel [root@ibm-x3550m3-02 646498-write-doesnt-return-efbig]# make run chmod a+x ./runtest.sh chmod +x ./reproducer.sh ./runtest.sh /mnt/tests/kernel/filesystems/646498-write-doesnt-return-efbig/reproducer.sh Running ./reproducer.sh As root: Write should return EFBIG, returned write(1, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 1024) = 0 ...finished running ./reproducer.sh, exit code=1 /kernel/filesystems/646498-write-doesnt-return-efbig result: FAIL
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