get/setrlimit issues in inndstart
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Thu Jun 22 03:34:02 UTC 2000
mki <mki at primenet.com> writes:
> Currently, inndstart.c sets RLIMIT_NOFILE by changing the rlim_cur
> member of struct rlimit. Wouldn't it be advisable to make it change
> rlim_max as well? because, if someone specifies rlimitnofile: in
> inn.conf to be some value, say 512, and the default maximum descriptor
> limit is 64, then setrlimit() fails with EINVAL, because rlim_cur is
> greater than rlim_max.
> ie. in inndstart.c at line 95 or 96, add rl.rlim_max = n;
Good point, thanks. Done.
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