Bug#860865: Correction to my previous suggestion

Further investigation in the internals of select() showed me I initially misunderstood how FD_SET worked. This restriction was to ensure the number of the FDs themselves do not go over 1023, because if an accept()ed connection receives such a number, it will be impossible to insert it in a FD_SET

Bug#860865: sendmail: arbitrary setrlimit(1024, 1024) causes file descriptor starvation

Package: sendmail-bin Version: 8.14.4-4+deb7u1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Running Sendmail as a production mail server for front-line processing (determinin