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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, 3 Aug 2021 12:18:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af21ec84-56a1-c25a-3672-06a48d3e9916@bell-sw.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210629201014.GQ13220@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On 29.06.2021 23:10, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 06:45:42PM +0300, Alexey Kodanev wrote:
>> 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().
> 
> Oh, sorry, I read it backwards and was thinking it was replacing EPERM
> with EACCES. Indeed nice is supposed to return EPERM where setpriority
> would return EACCES so I think this patch is correct.
> 

Hi Rich,

I wonder what is the status of this patch, didn't find it in git... is
there any issue with it?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-03  9:18 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
2021-06-29 20:10     ` Rich Felker
2021-08-03  9:18       ` Alexey Kodanev [this message]
2022-03-08 22:16         ` Rich Felker

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