Re: [PATCH] Polling > 16000 FDs

[Richard Henderson]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 09:56:36PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Just cover the 1Gb poll array DoS case and it should be fine

We already do 

        err = -EINVAL;
        if (nfds > current->files->max_fds)
                goto out;

ie you can't poll for more file descriptors than the process has.
Which is in turn ulimited.  What else can we reasonably check?

r~