setrlimit: Unable to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted

Carson Gaspar carson at taltos.org
Tue Jun 5 14:45:59 EDT 2007


> Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
>> JOYDEEP wrote:
>>   
>>> setrlimit: Unable to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operation not
>>> permitted
>>>     
>> I seem to recall this either being covered in here before or in the
>> docs.  Basically, some operating systems let you set the file descriptor
>> limit to -1, which means unlimited.  Some don't and generate that error.
>>
>> You can safely ignore it.

If it's meaningless, and expected, why log it at all? Logging noise is 
almost always a bad idea.

-- 
Carson


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