When creating UNIX domain sockets, the kernel used to return -ENOMEM on error where it should return -ENFILE. The behaviour has been wrong since 2.2.4 and fixed in the recent commit f4bd73b5a950 ("af_unix: Return errno instead of NULL in unix_create1()."). Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Note to maintainers of man-pages, the commit is merged in the net tree [0] but not in the Linus' tree yet. [0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=f4bd73b5a950 --- man7/unix.7 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index 6d30b25cd..2dc96fea1 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -721,6 +721,9 @@ invalid state for the applied operation. called on an already connected socket or a target address was specified on a connected socket. .TP +.B ENFILE +The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached. +.TP .B ENOENT The pathname in the remote address specified to .BR connect (2) -- 2.30.2