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Authored by trasz on Jun 7 2020, 4:32 PM.
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Summary

Make linux(4) set openfiles soft resource limit to 1024 for Linux
applications, which often depend on this being the case. There's
a new sysctl, compat.linux.default_openfiles, to control this
behaviour.

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trasz requested review of this revision.Jun 7 2020, 4:32 PM
bcr added a subscriber: bcr.

OK from manpages, with the usual .Dd bump when the commit happens.

kevans added a subscriber: kevans.

I think I'm orders of magnitude more comfortable with this change; it does indeed seem quite reasonable to default Linux applications out with the limits they're likely expecting.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 7 2020, 11:17 PM
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emaste added inline comments.
share/man/man4/linux.4
100 ↗(On Diff #72796)

I might s/it/the limit/.

sys/compat/linux/linux_mib.c
68 ↗(On Diff #72796)

Maybe add ", or -1 for unlimited" or similar to the description string?