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List:       openmosix-devel
Subject:    Re: [Openmosix-devel] mlock bug
From:       Moshe Bar <moshe () qlusters ! com>
Date:       2003-11-19 15:40:07
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On Nov 19, 2003, at 4:44 AM, Vincent Hanquez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> mlock syscall set the stay reason to DSTAY_MLOCK even if the call fail.
> I fix it, but I'm wondering if it was intended.

no, it's certainly not indeded.


>
> We can imagine setting the stay reason if the task use this sort of 
> call,
> but in my opinion, it may serve bad guy on the cluster.
>
> ex: setting a invalid mlock call (says.. bad parameters) on each
> program that a person want to stay on the home node; the call will fail
> and task will be stuck on a node.
>
> thoughts, comments welcome ..
>

It if fails there is no reason to put the task STAY

Moshe



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