On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:32:15PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <20020708091652.B732@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk> you write:
> >The SuS says that EINVAL should be returned if the 'nfds' argument
> >is greater than {OPEN_MAX}.
> 
> It's not just a "should", it's a "shall".  As I understand it, this means
> it's not allowed for poll() to succeed in this case.

Interesting presumably {OPEN_MAX} could be indefinite (or maybe
maxfiles for netbsd) because a process can raise it's rlimit(NO_FILES)
value to an arbitrarily high value.

Indeed the kernel need not even enforce rlimit(NO_FILES) if it
chooses not to (eg for root).
(or did I misread the SuS pages this morning).

	David

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