Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:40:51 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: bug in kernel/sysctl.c (SYSIPC) ? |
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:51:17 +0100 (CET) Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at> wrote:
| atleast in kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 in kernel/sysctl.c shmmax and shmall use | the proc_dointvec_minmax callback without passing a min/max value - is there | a reson for this or is this a simple bug ? | | linux/kenrel/sysctl.c (line 221 for 2.4.19/20) | | #ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC | {KERN_SHMMAX, "shmmax", &shm_ctlmax, sizeof (size_t), | 0644, NULL, &proc_doulongvec_minmax}, | {KERN_SHMALL, "shmall", &shm_ctlall, sizeof (size_t), | 0644, NULL, &proc_doulongvec_minmax}, | ... | #endif
The min and max values default to 0 if not specified (initialized), and the _minmax functions have code to handle those cases.
so as long as the intended min/max values were 0, I don't see a problem. Are you seeing a problem?
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