From: Vlastimil Babka > Sent: 23 September 2016 10:59 ... > > I suspect that fdt->max_fds is an upper bound for the highest fd the > > process has open - not the RLIMIT_NOFILE value. > > I gathered that the highest fd effectively limits the number of files, > so it's the same. I might be wrong.
An application can reduce RLIMIT_NOFILE below that of an open file.
David
