[PATCH 2/2] Remove OPEN_MAX

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Tue Mar 13 2007 - 04:40:50 EST


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 <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/limits.h | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/limits.h b/include/linux/limits.h
index eaf2e09..c4b4e57 100644
--- a/include/linux/limits.h
+++ b/include/linux/limits.h
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
#define NGROUPS_MAX 65536 /* supplemental group IDs are available */
#define ARG_MAX 131072 /* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */
#define CHILD_MAX 999 /* no limit :-) */
-#define OPEN_MAX 256 /* # open files a process may have */
#define LINK_MAX 127 /* # links a file may have */
#define MAX_CANON 255 /* size of the canonical input queue */
#define MAX_INPUT 255 /* size of the type-ahead buffer */
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