On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > I doubt it is intentional, but I also cannot really feel that we care > deeply. Afaik we don't really honor the size limit exactly anyway, ie > we tend to check only at page boundaries etc. So do we really care?
I could imagine in the case Al brought up (a pipe as core file filter) we might want to have some assurance the limits are not breached. If it doesn't cost that much I'd say implement it precisely. -- 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/
