* Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> [110228 21:27]: > By using a hard upper limit that is below the rlimit of the current > process, it is not necessary to check for EMFILE on every single > fd-allocating system call. Instead reserving 8 file descriptors > makes it safe to assume the system call won't fail due to being > over limit in the filedescriptor limit. Isn't 8 quite a bit low for a reserve? Couldn't some libc stuff (especially nss modules perhaps activated by something) easily surpass that? Bernhard R. Link -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html