[ILUG] max files open

From: Donncha O Caoimh (donncha.ocaoimh at domain tradesignals.com)
Date: Thu 18 May 2000 - 10:23:14 IST


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

A quick look at include/linux/fs.h in the kernel source shows you can
have 1024*1024 open files :)
Problem is that normal users can't increase their number of open files.
I get "operation not permitted", how does root change the limits for
users?

Donncha.



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