Re: Increase default nofile ulimit

2014-06-09 Thread John Moser
On 06/09/2014 07:10 AM, Robie Basak wrote: > AIUI, there are security implications for raising this limit system-wide > by default, since applications that use select() are often broken and > will become vulnerable with a higher limit. > > See > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-S

Re: Increase default nofile ulimit

2014-06-09 Thread Robie Basak
AIUI, there are security implications for raising this limit system-wide by default, since applications that use select() are often broken and will become vulnerable with a higher limit. See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-September/031446.html for the previous discussion. s