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 eaf2e09..c4b4e57 100644
--- 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 */
