Re: [PATCH] Fix poll() nfds check.

On 7/5/06, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:

[EINVAL]
    The nfds argument is greater than {OPEN_MAX}, or ...


This requirement must be treated the same way as the EMFILE error in
open(): ignore the OPEN_MAX limit if ulimit says so.  The question is
what to do if the ulimit < OPEN_MAX.  POSIX does not require OPEN_MAX
to be the exact limit.

So, I think removing the OPEN_MAX comparison is the correct way to do
this here.  If somebody wants strict POSIX compliance they have to set
ulimit -n to 256.
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