default file descriptor limit ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <78759.1428912996 at critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>	$ limits
>	Resource limits (current):
>	[...]
>	openfiles              462357
>
>say what ?
>
>This wastes tons of pointless close system calls in programs which
>use the suboptimal but best practice:
>
>	for (i = 3; i < sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); i++)
>		close(i);
>
>For reference Linux seems to default to 1024, leaving it up to
>massive server processes to increase the limit for themselves.
>
>I'm all for autosizing things but this is just plain stupid...

Just to give an idea how utterly silly this is:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <unistd.h>

	int
	main(int c, char **v)
	{
		int i, j;

		for (j = 0; j < 100; j++)
			for (i = 3; i < sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); i++)
				close(i);
		return (0);
	}

Linux:  	 0.001 seconds
FreeBSD:	17.020 seconds


PS: And don't tell me to fix all code in /usr/ports to use closefrom(2).

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