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| author | наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> | 2023-07-16 13:45:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-07-16 16:51:30 +0200 |
| commit | ea5a42d0df720e29b1d3bda83385bc61b2b720f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 12708093abba156e20161c45217eadb917a329cb | |
| parent | c98d237c22e9e898ae7d05e2222e7eac47791bd3 (diff) | |
epoll_create.2: HISTORYise "max_user_instances" EMFILE
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances hasn't existed since
commit 9df04e1f25effde823a600e755b51475d438f56b
("epoll: drop max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches")
from
Date: Thu Jan 29 14:25:26 2009 -0800
which describes to v2.6.29-rc3-24-g9df04e1f25ef.
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/epoll_create.2 | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man2/epoll_create.2 b/man2/epoll_create.2 index 4d3566a79..2a21bbf8b 100644 --- a/man2/epoll_create.2 +++ b/man2/epoll_create.2 @@ -83,14 +83,6 @@ Invalid value specified in .IR flags . .TP .B EMFILE -The per-user limit on the number of epoll instances imposed by -.I /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances -was encountered. -See -.BR epoll (7) -for further details. -.TP -.B EMFILE The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached. .TP .B ENFILE @@ -134,6 +126,17 @@ must still be greater than zero, in order to ensure backward compatibility when new .B epoll applications are run on older kernels. +.PP +Prior to Linux 2.6.29, +.\" commit 9df04e1f25effde823a600e755b51475d438f56b +a +.I /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances +kernel parameter limited live epolls for each real user ID, +and caused +.BR epoll_create () +to fail with +.B EMFILE +on overrun. .SH SEE ALSO .BR close (2), .BR epoll_ctl (2), |