Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:16:41 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
       Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] epoll: increase default max_user_instances to 1024
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> It's really simple. A kernel upgrade in a -stable series point release
> broke a rational user-space setup. If you don't want to adjust the

You can just as equally load the description the other way:

"A kernel upgrade in a -stable series point release fixed a security DoS"

Which is not to say that a smarter limit isn't needed.

Alan
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