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From: Alexey Kodanev <aleksei.kodanev@bell-sw.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] [PATCH] nice: return EPERM instead of EACCES
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:45:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a862f77-4e57-fe2f-d1b3-ea8bcd626aa3@bell-sw.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210629144834.GP13220@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On 29.06.2021 17:48, Rich Felker wrote:
> Is there actually an issue here? setpriority is specified to fail with
> EACCES already for this case; EPERM is only specified for targeting
> other processes you don't have permission to target. Is Linux getting
> this wrong for setpriority?

No, it's fine for setpriority(), it just seems wrong for nice()
to return EACCES in this case.

LTP/nice04 test (setting nice(-10)) is failing with musl and POSIX
indeed says that the errno should be EPERM, for nice().

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-29 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-29 13:31 Alexey Kodanev
2021-06-29 14:48 ` Rich Felker
2021-06-29 15:45   ` Alexey Kodanev [this message]
2021-06-29 20:10     ` Rich Felker
2021-08-03  9:18       ` Alexey Kodanev
2022-03-08 22:16         ` Rich Felker

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