From 77293034696e3e0b6c8b8fc1f96be091104b3d2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:03:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Remove OPEN_MAX The OPEN_MAX macro in limits.h should not be there. It claims to be the limit on file descriptors in a process, but its value is wrong for that. There is no constant value, but a variable resource limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE). Nothing in the kernel uses OPEN_MAX except things that are wrong to do so. I've submitted other patches to remove those uses. The proper thing to do according to POSIX is not to define OPEN_MAX at all. The sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX) implementation works by calling getrlimit. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed