Hi All,

Today, I'm playing with the "ulimit " command.  My login has a ulimit
of 1024 for open file descriptor:

$ ulimit -n
1204

But when using lsof to list down all files (files, socket, etc) opened
by my login, I got:

$ lsof -u user | wc -l
3977

Can someone tell me why can my login open more files than granted by
ulimit?  I'm running:

Debian stable (lenny)
Gnome desktop environment + compiz

Thanks.

-- wenlong (boon leong)

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