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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:33:44 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] f_maxcount seems to be deprecated ?
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Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> 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.