On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 07:27:42PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > ERRORS > > EINVAL The buflen value was invalid. > > Also on unknown flags? Without that it would be impossible to probe for > implemented flags. We removed the cap on the buflen size (although if someone gives something insanely large, it can get capped), so EINVAL will only happen for unknown flags. I'll fix the suggested man page. - Ted P.S. The reason why OpenBSD had a very strong opinion about returning EIO for buflen greater than 256 bytes was they really wanted to pound it into application writers than if they were trying to fetch more than 256 bytes, they were probably Doing Something Wrong, and they decided EIO was less subtle that EINVAL.... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
