Re: [PATCH] unix.7: Add a description for ENFILE.
From: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-02 17:44:57
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Hello Kuniyuki, On 9/29/21 3:38 AM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
When creating UNIX domain sockets, the kernel used to return -ENOMEM on
error where it should return -ENFILE. The behaviour has been wrong since
2.2.4 and fixed in the recent commit f4bd73b5a950 ("af_unix: Return errno
instead of NULL in unix_create1().").
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <redacted>
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Note to maintainers of man-pages, the commit is merged in the net tree [0]
but not in the Linus' tree yet.
[0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=f4bd73b5a950Thanks! The patch looks good to me, so could you ping back when this is merged in Linus's tree? Cheers, Alex
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--- man7/unix.7 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index 6d30b25cd..2dc96fea1 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7@@ -721,6 +721,9 @@ invalid state for the applied operation. called on an already connected socket or a target address was specified on a connected socket. .TP +.B ENFILE +The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached. +.TP .B ENOENT The pathname in the remote address specified to .BR connect (2)
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