From: Bernhard R. Link <brl+ccmadness@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:35:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit file descriptors used by packs
Message-ID: <20110228203557.GA8189@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1298924835-23413-1-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org>

* Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> [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