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Article #290Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 04:58
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 04:58
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In article <14994:Feb207:10:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> > if (chdir(newsuid) == -1) {
> > (void) mkdir(newsuid,0700);
> This cannot fail unless some renegade sysadmin changes the mode of the
> session directory while pty is running.
Er, what about the disc running out of I-nodes? Or going over quota?
Or a file server dropping dead?
> > (void) chdir(newsuid);
> > }
> Cannot fail.
Can fail if the preceding mkdir() failed -- see above.
There is *always* another way for things to go wrong.
--
The Marxists have merely _interpreted_ Marxism in various ways;
the point, however, is to _change_ it. -- R. Hochhuth.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!goanna!ok From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap) Message-ID: <4702@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 4 Feb 91 04:58:36 GMT References: <21548@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <5883:Feb102:05:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <14994:Feb207:10:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Followup-To: comp.bugs.4bsd Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 21