Re: [PATCH] Polling > 16000 FDs

[Jamie Lokier]

Richard Henderson wrote:
> 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;

...which has been noticed as a problem for programs that duplicate the
same file descriptor with different flags.

-- Jamie