On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 22:24, Stuart Henderson wrote: > These values make sense to me, though I think some people didn't like > daemons themselves changing rlimit when this came up before, so we added > a login.conf section when this was needed for bgpd (handled by rc.subr > setting the class automatically).
I can perhaps understand the argument that homegrown daemons should rely on login.conf, but for something like nginx that's developed upstream, it would seem logical to use the provided mechanism. The file limit relates to many other settings in nginx; they should be in one file.
