On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 03:38:35PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Axel Luttgens: > [default open file rlim_max = 9223372036854775807] > > Thanks for doing the experiments. On 64-bit systems the number > 9223372036854775807 equals RLIM_INFINITY.
An interesting API choice, since file descriptors larger than
INT_MAX cannot be used with open(2), close(2), read(2), write(2), ...
So using a 64-bit (long) limit for a 32-bit (int) quantity is a
bit perverse.
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Viktor.
