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| author | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2004-10-18 09:26:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2004-10-18 09:26:02 +0000 |
| commit | a494b1e1085547c1f1fb9429081bc2666b21fdc1 (patch) | |
| tree | f07fa213213ec83d158accb93057f068f18708a2 /doc | |
| parent | 35edf2ff67ad9fa5fc0e83bde865d807c297864f (diff) | |
If setrlimit() barfs at 1000 file descriptors, try for 256 to
accommodate those old OS for which this is the upper limit.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index c27cbbef5..2283f726f 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.7 2004/10/18 09:16:57 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.8 2004/10/18 09:26:02 ph10 Exp $ Change log file for Exim from version 4.21 ------------------------------------------- @@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ Exim version 4.44 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports. - 5. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option. + 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option. + + 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file + descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value + unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these + systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256. Exim version 4.43 |