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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-10-09 23:47:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-10-09 23:49:54 +0200 |
| commit | 2c1b51b14b5de6b7c2181ae363c325eaf3228f81 (patch) | |
| tree | aa891234cb926ea70de11b82f16fc6fa10a733c6 | |
| parent | be1586b2f60415e51fb5c1c419a630ba562a4500 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-2c1b51b14b5de6b7c2181ae363c325eaf3228f81.tar.gz | |
epoll_ctl.2: epoll instances can be nested to a maximum depth of 5
This limit appears to be an off-by-one count against
EP_MAX_NESTS (4).
Verified by experiment.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/epoll_ctl.2 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/epoll_ctl.2 b/man2/epoll_ctl.2 index 3b3da485b8..13b6cd4de8 100644 --- a/man2/epoll_ctl.2 +++ b/man2/epoll_ctl.2 @@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ refers to an epoll instance. refers to an epoll instance and this .B EPOLL_CTL_ADD operation would result in a circular loop of epoll instances -monitoring one another. +monitoring one another or a nesting depth of epoll instances +greater than 5. .TP .B ENOENT .I op |