Re: [PATCH] unix.7: Add a description for ENFILE.

From:   "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <redacted>
Date:   Sat, 2 Oct 2021 19:44:52 +0200

Hello Kuniyuki,

On 9/29/21 3:38 AM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:

quoted

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>
---
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=f4bd73b5a950

Thanks!

The patch looks good to me, so could you ping back when this is merged 
in Linus's tree?

Thanks, sure!
Is that -stable?
The pull-request from net-next hit the Linus' 5.14-rc4 tree few days ago.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20210930163002.4159171-1-kuba@kernel.org/ (local)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4de593fb965fc2bd11a0b767e0c65ff43540a6e4

Best regards,
Kuniyuki

Cheers,

Alex

quoted

---
  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)

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/