What doe NR stand for ?
Seems to be “normal resources”, where normal probably meant file descriptor based.
Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)
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Re: Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)
#12What doe NR stand for ?
Seems to be “normal resources”, where normal probably meant file descriptor based.
Where did you find that info ?
I am asking because I tried to write to basic nasm programs in order to learn and I used the c preprocessor (cpp) over my nasm files to take advantage of the libc macros from and they were all of the form __NR_syscall
Then the other responses' assumption, "NumbeR", seems correct
Re: Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems to be “normal resources”, where normal probably meant file descriptor based.
Where did you find that info ? I am asking because I tried to write to basic nasm programs in order to learn and I used the c preprocessor (cpp) over my nasm files to take advantage of the libc macros from and they were all of the form __NR_syscall Then the other responses' assumption, "NumbeR", seems correct
It's NumbeR. I don't have an authoritative source other than e.g. [0], but I was around (IRC, mailing lists) when some of these were created.
[0]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Re: Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems to be “normal resources”, where normal probably meant file descriptor based.
Where did you find that info ? I am asking because I tried to write to basic nasm programs in order to learn and I used the c preprocessor (cpp) over my nasm files to take advantage of the libc macros from and they were all of the form __NR_syscall Then the other responses' assumption, "NumbeR", seems correct
I’m wrong. Fourth paragraph from the bottom, last sentence they say “normal resource limits.” I thought that meant “the limit of something called normal resources” not the normal amount of the resource’s limit. Probably because I was trying to find out the exact same question as OP and thought that was it when I read it. I wish articles explained names more specifically sometimes…