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* [PATCH] unix.7: Add a description for ENFILE.
@ 2021-09-29  1:38 Kuniyuki Iwashima
  2021-10-02 17:44 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
  2021-10-02 18:12 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima @ 2021-09-29  1:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Kerrisk, Alejandro Colomar
  Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Kuniyuki Iwashima, Kuniyuki Iwashima,
	linux-man, netdev

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
---
 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)
-- 
2.30.2


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