error in pipe.c?

Tracy R Reed (treed@ultraviolet.org)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 23:30:55 -0700 (PDT)

While investigating a crashing qmail, we discovered the following...

--
Tracy Reed      http://www.ultraviolet.org
We all live in a yellow subroutine. 


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:26:14 -0500 (EST)
From: pacman@cqc.com
To: djb-qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu
Subject: Re: more qmail problems


Mark Delany writes the following:
>
>Why is the pipe system call returning 23?
>
>Does it mean -23?
>
>In which case, does it mean
>
>#define ENFILE  23      /* File table overflow                  */


Yep, I'd say it does.


/usr/src/linux/fs/pipe.c:
  int do_pipe(int *fd)
  {
	  struct inode * inode;
	  struct file *f1, *f2;
	  int error;
	  int i,j;


	  error = ENFILE;
This should be "error = -ENFILE;"


Now one of us should tell linux-kernel@wherever.it.is



-- 
Alan Curry




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