Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 20:29:27 -0700 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r340038 - in head: lib/libc/sys sys/kern Message-ID: <CAG6CVpU5aLjOB-1N92KpEOFDBpZe4gu5=w6ADWeD=6MgXFPjsQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20181102004555.GJ5335@kib.kiev.ua> References: <201811012346.wA1NkNS5079845@repo.freebsd.org> <20181102004555.GJ5335@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:46 PM Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:46:23PM +0000, Conrad Meyer wrote: > > ... > > @@ -232,7 +232,15 @@ points outside the process's allocated address space. > > A signal was delivered before the time limit expired and > > before any of the selected events occurred. > > .It Bq Er EINVAL > > -The specified time limit is invalid. One of its components is negative or too large. > > +The specified time limit is invalid. > > +One of its components is negative or too large. > > +.It Bq Er EINVAL > > +The number of pollfd structures specified by > > +.Fa nfds > > +exceeds the system tunable > > +.Va kern.maxfilesperproc > > +and > > +.Dv FD_SETSIZE . > > This is somewhat confusing. Looking only at the man page text, most > straight reading of it is that nfds cannot exceed min(maxfilesperproc, > FD_SETSIZE). But in fact nfds cannot exceed max of it, which is > significantly different, i.e. poll(2) does not suffer from the (userspace) > FD_SETSIZE limitation of select(2). min(maxfilesperproc, FD_SETSIZE) would be written as "nfds exceeds ... maxfilesperproc OR FD_SETSIZE," rather than "and." I think the sentence is unambiguous. Best, Conrad
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