Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:55:21 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] thread wakeup fix for 2.4.0-test7 |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > close doesn't close. This would be a ``bug'', Linus. > > Nope. The fd can be closed and a new one opened while the poll sleeps on the > existing one. The current code is compliant
So can you open enough files to crash a machine this way then? (Because the _fd_ limit is never reached, but the open file limit may be).
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