On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:13:09 -0800 ebied...@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> If mock has called unshare(CLONE_NEWPID). And then forked a process and > that process exited, and then forked anothe process that second and all > subsequent fork calls will fail with -ENOMEM (because init has exited in > the pid namespace). -ENOMEM will be generated because of a failure of > alloc_pid. Can we please fix this? The system is *not* out of memory and it's wildly misleading to report this to userspace. If alloc_pid() can fail for multiple reasons then it should be returning an ERR_PTR on failure, not NULL. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
