Re: inotify 0.23 errno 28 (ENOSPC)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:35 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:33 -0700, Bryan Wilkerson wrote:
> 
> > I read an earlier thread where you said that it was
> > possible to manually walk a tree and add all
> > directories to an inotify watch descriptor.  I wrote
> > some code to do this and the ioctl call fails on my
> > machine after adding 9,977 directories with ENOSPC.  
> > 
> > I've attached a small repro case.  Just point it at
> > the base of a large dir tree (e.g. inotify-r ~) to
> > use. 
> > 
> > My kernel is 2.6.12-rc3 with the inotify 0.23 patch. 
> > Let me know if you need more information.  
> 
> This is intended.  There is a per-user limit on the number of watches.
> By default, that limit is 8192.
> 
> You can view and edit the number via
> 	/sys/class/misc/inotify/max_user_watches

why isn't this an rlimit instead ?


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