On 27/09/2021 11:48, Juergen Gross wrote: > Add a configuration item for the maximum number of open file > descriptors xenstored should be allowed to have. > > The default should be "unlimited" in order not to restrict xenstored > in the number of domains it can support, but unfortunately the prlimit > command requires specification of a real value for the number of files, > so use 262144 as the default value.
Citation needed. prlimit -nunlimited prlimit --nofile=unlimited both work fine, and strace confirms they issue correct system calls. Support for "unlimited" as a parameter has existed for the entire lifetime of the utility, https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/6bac2825af7216c5471148e219dbcf62ec5ede84 ~Andrew
