Re: max_fd

[Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:37:51PM +0200, Pablo Fernandez wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What happend to files_struct.max_fd? Is it safe to use
> files_fdtable(files_struct).max_fds?

No.

Just do - 

	struct fdtable *fdt;

	rcu_read_lock();
	fdt = files_fdtable(files_struct);
	if (fdt->max_fds......
	...
	rcu_read_unlock();


If you are updating the fd table, then acuire the file_lock
instead of rcu_read_lock/unlock.

Thanks
Dipankar
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