From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933755AbXDASD1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:03:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933762AbXDASD1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:03:27 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:47755 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933755AbXDASD0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:03:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=G7GFq4uS8KX1Amo4A/14q36M54N9d43mXKFQCfYmnRrxzDlm+ccsLVnkKHQboACry Gq4Fr3auHWWJr1D4wAlCA== Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 11:03:15 -0700 From: "Ken Chen" To: "devzero@web.de" Subject: Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jdike@addtoit.com In-Reply-To: <1713627366@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1713627366@web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/1/07, devzero@web.de wrote: > not sure if this is a real issue and if it`s UML or loop related - > but how is low-memory situations being handled when > creating loop devices ? kernel returns -ENOMEM as an error code if there are no memory left to initialize loop device. > should losetup or dmesg tell "out of memory" if there is not > enough memory left ? It should, as kernel does pass that info back to app. Does losetup check return value of open() syscall?