• Roland McGrath's avatar
    Remove OPEN_MAX · 77293034
    Roland McGrath authored
    The OPEN_MAX macro in limits.h should not be there.  It claims to be the
    limit on file descriptors in a process, but its value is wrong for that.
    There is no constant value, but a variable resource limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE).
    Nothing in the kernel uses OPEN_MAX except things that are wrong to do so.
    I've submitted other patches to remove those uses.
    
    The proper thing to do according to POSIX is not to define OPEN_MAX at all.
    The sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX) implementation works by calling getrlimit.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
    Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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