Re: [RFC] f_maxcount seems to be deprecated ?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 16:35:53 EST


Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Considering :
>
> [root@dada1 linux-2.6.13-rc6]# find .|xargs grep f_maxcount
> ./fs/file_table.c: f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX;
> ./fs/read_write.c: if (unlikely(count > file->f_maxcount))
> ./include/linux/fs.h: size_t f_maxcount;
>
>
> I was wondering if f_maxcount has a real use these days...

No, I guess we can just stick a hard-wired INT_MAX in there.

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