Messages in this thread | | | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:16:19 +0200 |
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"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> writes:
> By the way, you might remember that I have asked about overriding > creditials and signals. > When a process issues chmod, rename or something, then the internal > copyup happens. If RLIMIT_FSIZE is set to the process, then it may > fire SIGXFSZ and return EFBIG. It looks strange.
Yeah, good observation. Copy-up shouldn't fail on RLIMIT_FSIZE and it doesn't because splice ignores RLIMIT_FSIZE.
So overlayfs works correctly because of a bug in splice. Not very satisfactory situation.
Thanks, Miklos
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