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

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-02T17:44:56Z

Hello Kuniyuki,

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

Thanks!

The patch looks good to me, so could you ping back when this is merged
in Linus's tree?

Cheers,

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)