> On Feb 5, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote: > > all of which seems to indicate processes have plenty more than 256 file > descriptors available by default. I thought 256 was left behind as a default > long ago because it was way too small.
It was definitely 256 as recently as OS X 10.8 — I know because in 2012 I was porting a server app that needed way more file descriptors than that, so I had to work with setrlimit to raise it. So it must have been raised in 10.9 or 10.10. Good. —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com