New submission from Paul Price: The docs for resource.setrlimit (http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/resource.html#resource.setrlimit) state: "The limits argument must be a tuple (soft, hard) of two integers describing the new limits. A value of -1 can be used to specify the maximum possible upper limit."
On Mac OSX (10.7.5) with Python 2.7.3 (built fresh), I get the following behaviour: $ PATH=$HOME/test/bin:$PATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/test/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH python Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2013, 11:02:56) [GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.9.00)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import resource >>> resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (10, -1)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: not allowed to raise maximum limit >>> resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (10, 10)) >>> I get the same behaviour for the system python (2.7.3 built with GCC 4.6.3) in Ubuntu 12.04.1. ---------- messages: 184086 nosy: Paul.Price priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: resource.setrlimit doesn't respect -1 type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17409> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
