Re: [PATCH] Polling > 16000 FDs

[Alan Cox]

> 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?

That should be more than adequate.