[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return value

Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when
it should.  I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x..

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 9e157e0240d4..19d058be49d4 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1656,6 +1656,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setrlimit(unsigned int resource, struct rlimit __user *rlim)
 
         if (resource != RLIMIT_CPU)
                 goto out;
+
+        /*
+         * RLIMIT_CPU handling.   Note that the kernel fails to return an error
+         * code if it rejected the user's attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU.  This is a
+         * very long-standing error, and fixing it now risks breakage of
+         * applications, so we live with it
+         */
         if (new_rlim.rlim_cur == RLIM_INFINITY)
                 goto out;