Re: RFC: poll change

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:53:20PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> invalid fds.  The behavior is identical both before and after
> your change, so there is no reason to make it.

actually I can see a case where it makes difference: if you sends 1024
entries to poll with the last entry of the array polling for one of the
allocated file descriptors (all previous 1023 entries are negative) and
the last fd allocated is ID 255.

Andrea