Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:47:48 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20060306.224748.86458359.davem@davemloft.net>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, fabbione@ubuntu.com,
       akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: VFS nr_files accounting
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:11:20 +0530

> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:39:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > I think we should seriously consider these patches for 2.6.16
> 
> Isn't it a little too late in the 2.6.16 cycle ? I would have
> liked a little more time in -mm. Anyway, it is Linus' call. 
> I can refresh the patches and submit against latest mainline
> if Linus and Andrew want.

Users can run widely published programs to make one's system run out
of file descriptors and make the machine totaly unusable.

If that doesn't qualify for something to fix for 2.6.16 I don't know
what does.  :-)
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