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
    
    
More information about the Info-cyrus
mailing list