[ILUG] max files open

[Niall]

Donncha O Caoimh asked 

> ulimit -a reports that a user can have up to 1024 files open. Is that
> per user or per process?

That's per process, and each user is limited to the same number of processes.
the [gs]etrlimit system calls allow you to modify resource limits, but I
don't think a user can modify his RLIMIT_NOFILE value under Linux, or even
if that value can be modified at all.

Regards,


Niall