linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH (resend)] Input: MT

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiT8RzFUVXe=r3S9dfCpV+FhARgtb5SxLDSOKCJKCLOZA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:16:02 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...math.org>, 
	"linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (resend)] Input: MT - limit max slots

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 10:59, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Can I write a gigabyte of data to disk? Terabyte? Is petabyte too much?
> What if I don't have enough physical disk. Do we "fix" write() not to
> take size_t length?

Dmitry, that's *EXACTLY* what we did decades ago.

Your argument is bogus garbage. We do various arbitrary limits exactly
to head off problems early.

            Linus