Re: [PATCH] unix.7: Add a description for ENFILE.

[Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>]

From:   "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 2 Oct 2021 20:12:48 +0200
> On 9/29/21 3:38 AM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> > When creating UNIX domain sockets, the kernel used to return -ENOMEM on
> > error where it should return -ENFILE.  The behaviour has been wrong since
> > 2.2.4 and fixed in the recent commit f4bd73b5a950 ("af_unix: Return errno
> > instead of NULL in unix_create1().").
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>
> > ---
> > Note to maintainers of man-pages, the commit is merged in the net tree [0]
> > but not in the Linus' tree yet.
> > 
> > [0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=f4bd73b5a950
> 
> Patch applied!

Thank you!

Best regards,
Kuniyuki


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 
> > ---
> >   man7/unix.7 | 3 +++
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7
> > index 6d30b25cd..2dc96fea1 100644
> > --- a/man7/unix.7
> > +++ b/man7/unix.7
> > @@ -721,6 +721,9 @@ invalid state for the applied operation.
> >   called on an already connected socket or a target address was
> >   specified on a connected socket.
> >   .TP
> > +.B ENFILE
> > +The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
> > +.TP
> >   .B ENOENT
> >   The pathname in the remote address specified to
> >   .BR connect (2)
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alejandro Colomar
> Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
> http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/