"David S. Miller" wrote:
 
>    The standard also says that any pollfd with (fd < 0) is ignored.  Holes are
>    explicitly ALLOWED.
> 
> Dude, it ignores negative fds, check fs/select.c:do_pollfd()

Right - we're running in circles.

The standard says negative fd's are ignored.  We get that right.  What we
are left with is an overly paranoid check against max_fds.  This check
should go away.  You should be able to pass in up to your rlimit fds, and
let negative ones (holes or tails) be ignored.

I'm attaching a patch :).

Am I still not making the problem clear?

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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@sun.com