Since many people don't realize that they need to set max_fds until they run out of file descriptors, default to the system max. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/config.c | 2 +- libmultipath/dict.c | 2 +- libmultipath/dict.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: multipath-tools-111111/libmultipath/config.c =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-111111.orig/libmultipath/config.c +++ multipath-tools-111111/libmultipath/config.c @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ load_config (char * file) conf->dev_type = DEV_NONE; conf->minio = DEFAULT_MINIO; conf->minio_rq = DEFAULT_MINIO_RQ; - conf->max_fds = 0; + get_sys_max_fds(&conf->max_fds); conf->bindings_file = set_default(DEFAULT_BINDINGS_FILE); conf->bindings_read_only = 0; conf->multipath_dir = set_default(DEFAULT_MULTIPATHDIR); Index: multipath-tools-111111/libmultipath/dict.c =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-111111.orig/libmultipath/dict.c +++ multipath-tools-111111/libmultipath/dict.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ def_minio_rq_handler(vector strvec) return 0; } -static int +int get_sys_max_fds(int *max_fds) { FILE *file; Index: multipath-tools-111111/libmultipath/dict.h =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-111111.orig/libmultipath/dict.h +++ multipath-tools-111111/libmultipath/dict.h @@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ #endif void init_keywords(void); +int get_sys_max_fds(int *); #endif /* _DICT_H */ -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel