From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] sysctl: forbid too long numbers
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:22:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75b66ecd0907011922x1843c0d3g9c3bf6f686f981e2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090629150123.43f79091.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Andrew Morton<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Or are they? One could imagine a script which was tested and developed
> on a 64-bit system, which writes a >4G number into a pseudo file. That
> script happens to work on 32-bit systems (it might not work _well_, but
> it'll work). With this change, the write will fail on the 32-bit
> system and the entire application could bale out or something.
>
> I'm not saying that this is a reason to avoid making the change, but
> it's all a worry and needs consideration.
This would break at least one existing setup that I know of. Consider
an environment where shmmax is set to the value the biggest server
needs (well over 4GB) on all database servers to simplify management.
This change would cause the database to fail on the old 32 bit servers
used for testing and QA.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-02 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-19 7:19 Amerigo Wang
2009-06-29 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-02 2:22 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2009-07-02 10:03 ` Amerigo Wang
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