> [3:13:191]root@sol:/etc> ulimit -Ha
[...]
> open files               9223372036854775807

> I'd like to know if 9223372036854775807 a meaningful number.

Probably not, in this context.  It's the decimal form of
0x7fffffffffffffff, the largest positive signed 64-bit integer.

					der Mouse

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