On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 14:32:27 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Historically the max files limit for processes has always been 1024, > because going beyond this is incompatible with the select() function. > None the less most apps these days will use poll() so should not be > limited in this way. > > Since systemd >= 240, the hard limit will be 500k, while the soft > limit remains at 1k. Applications which don't use select() should > raise their soft limit to match the hard limit during their startup. > > This function provides a convenient helper to do this limit raising. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + > src/util/virprocess.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > src/util/virprocess.h | 1 + > 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+) Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>
