RFR: 8300088: [IMPROVE] OPEN_MAX is no longer the max limit on macOS >= 10.6 for RLIMIT_NOFILE [v5]

Daniel D. Daugherty dcubed at openjdk.org
Mon Jan 22 18:21:29 UTC 2024


On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:49:42 GMT, Gerard Ziemski <gziemski at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> On current macOS (> 10.6) we can use `RLIM_INFINITY` for `setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE)`, even though the man page for setrlimit(2) claims otherwise.
>> 
>> The only wrinkle here is that some terminals (ksh) will crash with `RLIM_INFINITY`, because that value overflows `int` type, which they use internally, causing crash, so we work around that by using `INT_MAX` instead of `RLIM_INFINITY`.
>
> Gerard Ziemski has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   fix capitalization issue in comments around this fix

Reviewed again. For those comments that already started with a capital
letter, I probably would have chosen to add a period at the end, but that's
a personal preference thing...

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Marked as reviewed by dcubed (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17361#pullrequestreview-1837081234


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