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SubjectRe: bug in count_open_files() or a strange granularity?


On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, David S. Miller wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:13:44 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
>
> I know that there is no problem due to the way it is called in
> copy_files() -- it would only be above 32. But for what I want to
> use it, I need the _correct_ number of open file descriptors and
> not some "rounded up to 32" one.
>
> That function is static for a reason :-) It is not meant
> for external use. What it gives you is the smallest multiple
> of (8 * sizeof(long)) which is larger than the largest file
> descriptor the task has open.
>
> What you want is something like:
>
> static int num_open_files(struct files_struct *files, int size)
> {
> total = 0;
> for (i = size / (8 * sizeof(long)); i > 0; )
> total += count_bits(files->open_fds->fds_bits[--i]);
>
> return total;
> }

And you don't want even that - as soon as we release files->file_lock
the value becomes meaningless. So I'm rather suspicious about the
correctness of intended use.

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