On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:25:48AM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> David,
> 
> You're missing my point. You proposed enforcing a *fixed* limit of
> 1024 files per process.
> 
> > >The per-process 'hard' limit should be a fixed number.... say 1024.
> 
> No, it bloody well should not.
> 
> That value is way too low for certain applications.  One of the *nice*
> things about *BSD (as opposed, to say, Linux) is that such limits are
> not hard-to-find compile-time constants.
> 
> Suggesting that we take NetBSD in that direction isn't going to get a
> pleasant reception.

No: I'm saying that the DEFAULT hard limit be 1024.
This can already be changed (login classes??), and it doesn't
apply to root.

The 'hard' limit is actually only a 'soft' limit....

	David

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