Remove OPEN_MAX

The OPEN_MAX macro in limits.h should not be there.  It claims to be the
limit on file descriptors in a process, but its value is wrong for that.
There is no constant value, but a variable resource limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE).
Nothing in the kernel uses OPEN_MAX except things that are wrong to do so.
I've submitted other patches to remove those uses.

The proper thing to do according to POSIX is not to define OPEN_MAX at all.
The sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX) implementation works by calling getrlimit.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/limits.h b/include/linux/limits.h
index eaf2e099f1257f356264b278711068f25bb8e5f0..c4b4e579c01d5e29a5c1052812940dd16713430c 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/limits.h
+++ b/include/linux/limits.h
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 #define NGROUPS_MAX    65536   /* supplemental group IDs are available */
 #define ARG_MAX       131072   /* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */
 #define CHILD_MAX        999    /* no limit :-) */
-#define OPEN_MAX         256   /* # open files a process may have */
 #define LINK_MAX         127   /* # links a file may have */
 #define MAX_CANON        255   /* size of the canonical input queue */
 #define MAX_INPUT        255   /* size of the type-ahead buffer */