On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:55:01AM -0400, Binder Makin wrote: > It does allow processes which are used to handling file handled to deal > with the situation more cleanly. > If you get the ENOMEM then you are out of memory and you kill the process, > but if you are out of file handles we can clean up the open handles and > continue.
I don't know. If the program can manage fds dynamically, it may as well police itself under a sensible limit. I get that programs which already work with EMFILE may benefit from this but this isn't adding any essential feature and the same goal can be trivially achieved without any help from kernel as the benefits from EMFILE handling assumes the program is well-behaving. I'm very doubtful that custom-fitting kernel behavior to specific and rather peculiar program behaviors is a healthy approach. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
