Re: [PATCH] epoll_create.2: HISTORYise "max_user_instances" EMFILE

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On 6/28/23 20:09, наб wrote:
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances hasn't existed since 2009.

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  man2/epoll_create.2 | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/epoll_create.2 b/man2/epoll_create.2
index 4d3566a79..e91728bfd 100644
--- a/man2/epoll_create.2
+++ b/man2/epoll_create.2
@@ -83,14 +83,6 @@ .SH ERRORS
  .IR flags .
  .TP
  .B EMFILE
-The per-user limit on the number of epoll instances imposed by
-.I /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances
-was encountered.
-See
-.BR epoll (7)
-for further details.
-.TP
-.B EMFILE
  The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached.
  .TP
  .B ENFILE
@@ -134,6 +126,20 @@ .SH HISTORY
  in order to ensure backward compatibility when new
  .B epoll
  applications are run on older kernels.
+.PP
+Prior to Linux v2.6.29,

Please use versioning syntax consistent with the project.
I did it so that grepping is easy.

Cheers,
Alex

+.\" commit 9df04e1f25effde823a600e755b51475d438f56b
+.\" ("epoll: drop max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches")
+.\" Date:   Thu Jan 29 14:25:26 2009 -0800
+.\" v2.6.29-rc3-24-g9df04e1f25ef
+a
+.I /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances
+sysctl limited live epolls for each real user ID,
+and caused
+.BR epoll_create ()
+to fail with
+.B EMFILE
+on overrun.
  .SH SEE ALSO
  .BR close (2),
  .BR epoll_ctl (2),

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