Hello Sam, On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anyone knows if the maximum number of file descriptors that can be passed > via SCM_RIGHTS is documented anywhere? > > Up to at least 2.6.35, I could stuff as many as 255 file descriptors. Which > sort of made sense. > > I updated to Fedora 15, which is based on 2.6.38, and the maximum number of > file descriptors I can stuff into a message seems to be 253. With 254, > strace tells me that the kernel refuses with EINVAL. No info on this sorry. Let me know if you determine(d) the details. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
