Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-31,: Re: error in pipe.c?

# Re: error in pipe.c?

Petri Kaukasoina (kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:13:49 +0300

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On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 10:51:14AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> Actually, it turns out I was running out of system fd's. However, the
> outdated pipe manpage didn't help. The one that came with RH4.2 is from
> kernel 0.99.11!!! I guess I should start looking for a newer set of
> manpages..

The man page is ok and there's a bug in 2.0.35 in reporting ENFILE when
running out of system fds just like pacman@cqc.com told us.

--- linux/fs/pipe.c.orig Thu Aug 7 03:52:01 1997
+++ linux/fs/pipe.c Thu Aug 6 11:53:53 1998
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@
int error;
int i,j;
- error = ENFILE;
+ error = -ENFILE;
f1 = get_empty_filp();
if (!f1)
goto no_files;

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