Bug 5672

Summary: cannot get socket once accept(2) has failed due to EMFILE/ENFILE
Product: Networking Reporter: kenneth topp (caught)
Component: IPV4Assignee: Stephen Hemminger (stephen)
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.14 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:

Description kenneth topp 2005-11-28 08:10:11 UTC 
Detail of issue is old:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2004-11/msg00573.html

Once accept fails on EMFILE/ENFILE you cannot get the socket even if you free up
fd's and retry...
Comment 1 Stephen Hemminger 2006-04-03 15:15:43 UTC 
Davem fixed this in 2.6.16