Re: bug in count_open_files() or a strange granularity?

["David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>]

   Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:13:44 +0000 (GMT)
   From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>

   I know that there is no problem due to the way it is called in
   copy_files() -- it would only be above 32. But for what I want to
   use it, I need the _correct_ number of open file descriptors and
   not some "rounded up to 32" one.

That function is static for a reason :-)  It is not meant
for external use.  What it gives you is the smallest multiple
of (8 * sizeof(long)) which is larger than the largest file
descriptor the task has open.

What you want is something like:

static int num_open_files(struct files_struct *files, int size)
{
	total = 0;
	for (i = size / (8 * sizeof(long)); i > 0; )
		total += count_bits(files->open_fds->fds_bits[--i]);

	return total;
}

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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