On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 09:42:22AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Personally I think libraries should not change errno at all.
OK, but then we output misleading error messages.
> I don't understand how this changes anything?
Simulate an out of memory condition with this patch
@@ -500,9 +500,11 @@ static int iptcc_chain_index_alloc(struct xtc_handle *h)
array_elems, array_mem);
h->chain_index = malloc(array_mem);
- if (h->chain_index == NULL && array_mem > 0) {
+ //if (h->chain_index == NULL && array_mem > 0) {
+ if (1) {
h->chain_index_sz = 0;
With the patch, the error message returned to user:
...can't initialize iptables table `filter': Memory allocation problem
without the patch:
...can't initialize iptables table `filter': Incompatible with this kernel
The former seems better, no?
Phil
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