write system call violates POSIX standard

[Nicolas Bourdaud]

Hi Konstantin,

On 15/02/2012 17:38, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> It seems that you are right.
> 
> A solution could be to return an error if uio->uio_offset itself is
> larger them RLIMIT_FSIZE. If it is less then the limit, the function
> could trim the supplied uio at the RLIMIT_FSIZE value instead.
> 
> Do you want to work on the patch ?

Oooohhh, no I don't know freebsd kernel enough for this!!!! I hit the
problem for a Debian package. So I am just reporting the bug :-). Bruce
Evans seems to have also ideas about the underlying problem, see his
comments in the bug report:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164793

Good luck!

Cheers

Nicolas


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