Re: [patch 2.4.19] reboot on out-of-file handles

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
31 Aug 2002 21:41:08 +0100

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 21:16, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
> Please find below a patch that adds the ability to panic if you run
> out of file handles (by setting /proc/sys/fs/file-max-panic to none-0).

You can already do this reliably in user space as part of your watchdog
daemon processing.

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