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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> | 2007-07-17 04:03:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -0700 |
| commit | 77293034696e3e0b6c8b8fc1f96be091104b3d2b (patch) | |
| tree | 17eeff1041240f99f1a37f5b57bf59d72d0a50a1 /include/linux | |
| parent | c09edd6eba683741bb8aa8e388a2bfaf1c1a28f9 (diff) | |
Remove OPEN_MAX
The OPEN_MAX macro in limits.h should not be there. It claims to be the
limit on file descriptors in a process, but its value is wrong for that.
There is no constant value, but a variable resource limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE).
Nothing in the kernel uses OPEN_MAX except things that are wrong to do so.
I've submitted other patches to remove those uses.
The proper thing to do according to POSIX is not to define OPEN_MAX at all.
The sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX) implementation works by calling getrlimit.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/limits.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/limits.h b/include/linux/limits.h index eaf2e099f12..c4b4e579c01 100644 --- a/include/linux/limits.h +++ b/include/linux/limits.h @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ #define NGROUPS_MAX 65536 /* supplemental group IDs are available */ #define ARG_MAX 131072 /* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */ #define CHILD_MAX 999 /* no limit :-) */ -#define OPEN_MAX 256 /* # open files a process may have */ #define LINK_MAX 127 /* # links a file may have */ #define MAX_CANON 255 /* size of the canonical input queue */ #define MAX_INPUT 255 /* size of the type-ahead buffer */ |