Re: Fwd: Re: 2.4.17:Increase number of anonymous filesystems beyond 256?

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:32:20PM -0500, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Andi, the patch above begs two questions in my mind:
> 
> 1. Why to bind to 0 (INADDR_ANY) explicitly? My patch does not bind
> at all and expects connect() to bind automatically. It is how
> userland works and it seems to work here as well.

No real reason. Should work too. 

> 
> 2. What did you do to increase the number of unnamed devices?
> You said the patch "should" work, did that mean you did not test it?

I didn't, but the original reporter reported that it works for him.

-Andi