Paul Price added the comment: The OSX manpage for setrlimit includes:
COMPATIBILITY setrlimit() now returns with errno set to EINVAL in places that histori- cally succeeded. It no longer accepts "rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY" for RLIM_NOFILE. Use "rlim_cur = min(OPEN_MAX, rlim_max)". It's strange that this is not mentioned in the corresponding manpage on Ubuntu 12.04. It seems the reason we can't use -1 for RLIMIT_NOFILE is because this requests 'unlimited' (RLIM_INFINITY), while there is always a limit on the number of open files (e.g., OPEN_MAX). Looking at the code (Modules/resource.c), python is doing the sensible thing. It seems that resource.setrlimit would have to be special-cased for RLIMIT_NOFILE to work as documented when specifying a "-1", but then python would be diverging from the behaviour of the underlying system call. I therefore propose that the documentation simply be adjusted to note the observed behaviour (i.e., specifying -1 means 'unlimited', and does not work in general for RLIMIT_NOFILE). I would be happy to provide a patch if this is desired. ---------- _______________________________________ 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