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SubjectRe: More FD's in 2.0.33
On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 11:08:14AM +1000, Dancer wrote:
> Doesn't some software just set that parameter to all sorts of funny
> values? I've always found the honesty of software dealing with that
> parameter to be dubious.
>
> In short, yes, that is what that parameter is there for...but it is not
> necessarily set to anything sane, IMO.

Then EINVAL/EBADF/EACCES/EFAULT are the right answer. The kernel isn't
here to guess what the user really meant.

OG.


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