Re: max_fd

[Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:25:10PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> 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();

In include/linux/file.h I see this:

 #define files_fdtable(files) (rcu_dereference((files)->fdt))

looks better to me unless you really want to update the
struct fdtable.

-- 
Frank
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