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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